Lords Committee hears from Department of Health and Social Care Ministers on better integration of primary and community care

On Monday 16 October the House of Lords Integration of Primary and Community Care Committee will hear from Ministers at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in an evidence session that will examine the issues facing better integration of healthcare services and future initiatives to improve integration.

The evidence session will start at 3.05pm and can be watched live or on demand at Parliament TV or in person in Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster.

The witnesses giving evidence to the committee will be:

3.05pm

• Helen Whately MP, Minister of State (Minister for Social Care), Department of Health and Social Care; and
• Neil O’Brien MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Primary Care and Public Health) Department of Health and Social Care.

Topics to be considered include but will not be limited to:

• Responsibility for primary and community integration within the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)
• Government responses to the Fuller and Hewitt Reviews, and the issues raised by these reports
• The role of the following in facilitating integration: Digital interoperability; The primary care estate
• How DHSC will use integrated care to approach issues like health inequality and public health
• Primary care networks and integrated care systems – and how local government, VCSE organisations and different clinical disciplines can be best involved in integrated provision
• How DHSC is addressing limiting factors on integration, such as workforce shortages