Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to implement the recommendations of the Interim Report of the Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, published in June 2015.

Since the interim report on the review of operational productivity in NHS providers was published in June 2015, the Department has been working continuously with its arm’s length bodies to ensure delivery of the recommendations.

Two tools in development are the “Adjusted Treatment Index” and the “Model Hospital”, both of which will be made available to the NHS for further development in order to help improve performance across the hospital sector. Additionally, several initiatives are under way including improvement collaboratives to support workforce efficiency programmes in nursing , hospital pharmacy and medicines optimisation, estates and facilities management and procurement.

Lord Carter will complete his review with a full report, which is due later this year.