Health Bill

What this bill does

Currently at 1st Reading in the Lords.

Abolishes NHS England and puts more NHS control under ministers.

This bill would remove NHS England and shift many of its powers to the Secretary of State and Integrated Care Boards. It also creates a new Single Patient Record system, changes NHS funding and accountability rules, moves patient-safety investigations into the CQC, and abolishes Healthwatch England and local Healthwatch. The latest version available is the bill as introduced, with no later amending stages provided here.

• Abolish NHS England and provide for transfer schemes to move its property, rights and liabilities
• Give the Secretary of State wide new and expanded functions, including powers to direct integrated care boards and to take decisions on commissioning and finance
• Give integrated care boards new commissioning responsibilities, especially for primary care and other services
• Require integrated care boards to publish information and involve patients and the public, and create duties to promote patient choice
• Place a duty on the Secretary of State to have regard to reducing health inequalities and to promote innovation
• Create statutory powers and a regulatory framework for a Single Patient Record and for health and social care information systems, including powers to require processing and impose penalties
• Transfer the Health Services Safety Investigations Body into the Care Quality Commission and abolish HSSIB
• Abolish Healthwatch England and change local involvement arrangements
• Change the constitution, accountability and financial/audit arrangements for NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts
• Create consolidated accounts across integrated care boards, trusts and foundation trusts and new powers over funding, spending limits and pooled budgets

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Progress

1. 1st reading · Commons
2. 2nd reading · Commons
3. Programme motion · Commons
4. Money resolution · Commons
5. Ways and Means resolution · Commons
6. Committee stage · Commons
7. Programme motion · Commons
8. Report stage · Commons
9. Ways and Means resolution · Commons
10. 3rd reading · Commons
11. 1st reading · Lords
12. 2nd reading · Lords