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

  1. The Rt Hon Ben Gummer

    2015 to 2016

  2. Dr Daniel Poulter

    2012 to 2015

  3. The Rt Hon Simon Burns

    1996 to 1997