Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Health)

Organisations: Department of Health and Social Care

Responsibilities

The Minister of State for Health leads on the following:

  • NHS operational performance
  • implementation of the Health and Care Act
  • finance, efficiency and commercial
  • NHS capital, land and estates
  • NHS workforce
  • transformation, including reconfigurations
  • diagnostics
  • devolved administrations, Crown dependencies and overseas territories
  • secondary legislation
  • maternity care
  • women’s health
  • EU future relationship, Northern Ireland Protocol and international trade
  • sponsorship of NHS England (NHSE) and Health Education England (HEE)

Previous holders of this role

  1. Maria Caulfield

    2022 to 2022