Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty's Government which functions of (a) strategic health authorities, (b) primary care trusts, and (c) other national bodies, will be affected by the Health and Social Care Bill; and which of those functions will be (1) transferred to other organisations, and (2) no longer be undertaken, once the Health and Social Care Bill is enacted.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the functions and budget of the NHS Commissioning Board and its outposts.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the fact that 81 per cent of publicly funded home care is now provided by the independent sector, what assessment they have made of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's suggestion that independent providers of home care for older people may be operating outside the reach of the Human Rights Act 1998; and what plans they have to bring...
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish a workforce transition strategy to guide the current changes to NHS structures.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of NHS staff employed on 1 April 2010 employed on strategic health authority and primary care trust functions will remain employed as of (a) 1 April 2011, (b) 1 April 2012, and (c) 1 April 2013.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the planned consultation highlighted in Monitor's publication "The new NHS provider licence", what plans they have to implement the risk pool levy in order to ensure the continuity of commissioner-requested services in the event of provider failure; and whether such a levy system will be implemented in 2015–16.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken and are planning to take to prevent service providers in the National Health Service from targeting (1) lower-cost patients, and (2) more profitable services.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the consultation on the NHS National Tariff Payment System 2015–16, what steps they have taken and are planning to take to ensure that health providers treating complex patients are not under-reimbursed by the payment by results system; and whether a more cost-reflective tariff system will be implemented in 2015–16.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what mechanisms are in place to prevent private sector providers making excess profits in contracts for NHS-funded services.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what mechanisms are in place to prevent providers who bid for contracts for NHS-funded services bidding at a loss in order to undercut other providers.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average profit margin projected by private sector providers in contracts for NHS-funded services; and what is the average margin of profits actually made.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding was allocated by the Department of Health to the Act FAST campaign in 2014–15 and 2015–16.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of lives saved as a result of measures in the National Stroke Strategy.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have reassessed their plans to replace bursaries with loans for all nursing students in the light of the potential impact of the decision to withdraw from the UK on the recruitment and retention within the NHS of qualified nurses from other EU member states.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 22 November (HL Deb, col 1833), whether an independent assessment of recruitment levels will be carried out in January 2017 once the rate of applications has been calculated.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government when NHS England will publish the details of clinical and patient and public voice members who have been appointed to Clinical Reference Groups since May 2016.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken to support NHS England's engagement with interested clinical commissioning groups in developing collaborative commissioning arrangements.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with NICE concerning the implementation of an abbreviated highly-specialised technologies process.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how NHS England will ensure adherence to national standards, once responsibility for commissioning specialised services is devolved or delegated to clinical commissioning groups.
Baroness Wheeler: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how NHS England will ensure that levels of data publication on outcomes and costs are maintained, once responsibility for commissioning specialised services is devolved or delegated to clinical commissioning groups.