NHS (Competition and Co-operation)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 7 June 2011.

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Photo of Simon Burns Simon Burns The Minister of State, Department of Health 2:30, 7 June 2011

Yes, I can tell the hon. Lady that it will be up to the SHA, the trust and officials at the Department—[Interruption.] The SHA is the strategic health authority in the north-west. It is for them to work together to produce a tripartite formal agreement—when agreed, it will be published for the local community to see—as the best way forward to seek solutions and to help trusts achieve foundation trust status. It is in their interest and the interest of patients to bring about improved, high-quality patient care.