Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 30
Ninth report - Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic
Published 6 Jan 2022
Paragraph 119
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
NHS England must produce its roadmap in response to the Wade-Gery report on Putting data, digital and tech at the heart of transforming the NHS at the earliest opportunity so that we and others are able to scrutinise it ahead of implementation.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Ninth report - Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic (HC 599), paragraph 119, 6 January 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 25 May 2022 (deadline 6 March 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government's response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's report on clearing the pandemic backlog sets out how it is working with its arm's length bodies to help the NHS clear the elective care waiting list.
- The response is to the Committee's ninth report of session 2021-22, 'Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic'.
- It was published by the Department of Health and Social Care on 12 May 2022, with an accessible HTML version added on 17 May 2022.
- The page summary does not state which recommendations the government accepts or disagrees with, or give specific commitments or dates. Readers should consult the full 34-page response for these.