Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality
Organisations:
Department of Health and Social Care
Responsibilities
Ministerial responsibilities include:
- end of life care
- failing hospitals
- hospital care
- maternity care
- pathology and death certification
- patient experience, including
- friends and family test
- NHS Constitution
- ombudsman and complaints
- patient choice
- Patient Reported Outcome Measures
- patient safety
- prison health services
- secondary care commissioning policy
- workforce, including:
- education and training
- Health Education England
- nursing and midwifery
- skills
Previous holders of this role
-
The Rt Hon Ben Gummer
2015 to 2016
-
Dr Daniel Poulter
2012 to 2015
-
The Rt Hon Simon Burns
1996 to 1997