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House of Commons · Ministers' Questions

Integrated Care Systems

Tuesday 17 October 2023 · 4 questions

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Answered 0 Partly answered 2 Not answered 0

Key points

  • Integrated care systems are making progress in understanding local health needs and planning accordingly.
  • NHS England determines funding for integrated care systems based on local population needs and demographic factors.
  • Labour-run NHS Wales was under-reporting A&E waiting times, impacting transparency and data accuracy.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Justin Madders Lab Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
NHS
Context

Integrated care systems aim to improve healthcare by better understanding local health needs and allocating resources accordingly.

Question

What recent assessment has been made of the effectiveness of integrated care systems?

Answer from Helen Whately

Integrated care systems and the organisations within them are making real progress in understanding the health needs of their populations, setting out their plans, developing the infrastructure needed for collaboration, and bringing health and social care organisations together to serve the needs of their communities.

Partly answered

Not addressed: The answer does not provide a specific assessment or evaluation of effectiveness.

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Q2 Justin Madders Lab Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
NHS
Context

The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside integrated care board has instructed all NHS providers to make 5% cuts in their services without public or parliamentary discussion.

Question

Given the Government's claim of increased funding for the NHS, why are there necessary service cuts? Will the Minister intervene to ensure they do not happen?

Answer from Helen Whately

NHS England determines the funding received by integrated care systems. That follows a formula which takes into account the needs of local populations, demographic deprivation and so on, and ICSs are then able to direct resources as they are best needed across those populations.

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Not addressed: The answer does not address why cuts are necessary or provide a commitment to prevent them.

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Q3 Virginia Crosbie
NHS
Context

A&E waiting times in Wales have been under-reported for the past decade, affecting the accuracy of NHS Wales's efforts to improve health outcomes.

Question

Does the Minister agree that without accurate data, the Labour Government in Cardiff are scuppering the attempts of NHS Wales to deliver better health outcomes throughout Wales?

Answer from Helen Whately

My hon. Friend has made a good point about the importance of transparency and accurate data. As she said, just this week we learnt that Labour-run NHS Wales had been under-reporting its A&E waiting times. According to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, about 45,000 patients are missing from the data.

Not addressed: The answer discusses inaccuracies in Welsh healthcare rather than addressing the importance of accurate data for integrated care systems in England.

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Q4 Andrew Gwynne Ind Gorton and Denton
NHS
Context

There is a commitment to increase the number of fracture liaison services but no progress has been made, despite previous assurances.

Question

When will the Government deliver on their commitment for the 'back better bones' campaign?

Answer from Helen Whately

As the hon. Member has mentioned, I have a broken ankle, and I am taking my responsibility as Minister with oversight of urgent and emergency care very seriously in making use of several of those services. As for my oversight of integrated care systems, what I am seeing is that they are making a very good job of enabling the integration of services.

Not addressed: The answer discusses unrelated services instead of addressing the commitment to fracture liaison services.

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