Ministerial role
Minister of State for Health
Organisations:
Department of Health and Social Care
Responsibilities
The Minister of State for Health leads on the following policy areas:
- NHS operations and performance
- secondary care commissioning policy
- healthcare quality regulation
- hospital care quality and patient experience
- patient safety
- hospitals in special measures
- Department of Health and Social Care expenditure and finances
- procurement
- hospital productivity
- workforce including pay and pensions, nursing and midwifery and education and training
- workforce race equality standard
- professional regulation
- cosmetic regulation
- maternity care
- screening in pregnancy
Ministerial lead for:
- Care Quality Commission
- Health Education England
- NHS Improvement
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Previous holders of this role
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Philip Dunne
2016 to 2018