Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee

Recommendation 32

Ninth report - Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic Published 6 Jan 2022 Paragraph 126 Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
Recommendation (the committee's words)
We have previously recommended that Care Quality Commission ratings include an assessment of the progress ICBs make on the integration of information technology between primary care, secondary care, and the social care sector. We repeat this recommendation here. Although the CQC is an independent body, we believe that including the delivery of integrated care and the effective use of technology within the domains it inspects would encourage further progress on integration.

From: Health and Social Care Committee, Ninth report - Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic (HC 599), paragraph 126, 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.

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