21.05.15
Who’s who at the DH
The new ministerial team at the Department of Health has been named, and responsibilities finalised, so who is doing what? NHE is here with the answer.
Jeremy Hunt - Secretary of State for Health
The Secretary of State has overall financial control and oversight of all NHS delivery and performance.
Alistair Burt - Minister of State for Community and Social Care
Responsibilities include:
- adult social care
- autism
- integration
- local government
- mental health
- older people
- physical and learning disabilities
- primary care, including dentistry and ophthalmic services:
- GP contract
- out of hours care
- pharmacy
- primary care commissioning policy
Ben Gummer - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality
Responsibilities include:
- end of life care
- failing hospitals
- hospital care
- maternity care
- pathology and death certification
- patient experience, including
- friends and family test
- NHS Constitution
- ombudsman and complaints
- patient choice
- Patient Reported Outcome Measures
- patient safety
- prison health services
- secondary care commissioning policy
- workforce, including:
- education and training
- Health Education England
- nursing and midwifery
- skills
Jane Ellison - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health
Responsibilities include:
- antimicrobial resistance
- cancer
- dementia
- diabetes
- fertility and embryology
- health improvement, including:
- addiction to medicines
- alcohol
- drugs
- obesity
- physical activity
- tobacco
- health protection, including:
- emergency preparedness
- vaccination
- long-term conditions
- prevention measures, including:
- children’s health and school nursing
- fluoridation
- health visiting
- NHS healthchecks
- preventing avoidable mortality
- sexual health
George Freeman - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences
This role is shared between the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for Health.
Responsibilities at the Department of Health include:
- Cancer Drugs Fund
- data and technology
- genomics
- medicines and industry
- NICE and MHRA
- regenerative medicine
- research and development
- specialised commissioning
- uptake of new drugs and med tech
Responsibilities at BIS include:
- agritech strategy
- life sciences industrial strategy
David Prior - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for NHS Productivity (Lords)
Responsibilities include:
- economic regulation
- NHS and DH finance
- NHS efficiency
- NHS England
- overall commissioning policy and clinical commissioning groups
- NHS Mandate and NHS Outcomes Framework
- NHS operations and performance
- ambulance services
- elective and emergency
- NHS 111
- urgent care
- winter planning
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