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Department of Health and Social Care

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The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

  • Overall financial control and oversight of NHS delivery and performance

  • Oversight of social care policy

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Will Quince MP

Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care

  • NHS secondary care: elective care recovery, hospital reconfigurations, special measures regime

  • Major diseases: cancer, diabetes, stroke

  • Rare diseases

  • Screening

  • Long-term conditions

  • NHS workforce: recruitment and retention, supply, education and training, leadership, pay and pensions, overall lead for industrial relations

  • Research: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), genomics, genetics and regenerative medicine, clinical trials

  • Life sciences

  • Medicines and medicines regulation: pharmaceutical price regulation schemes, uptake of new drugs, medical technology, medicines supply, medicinal cannabis, antivirals and therapeutics

  • International, devolved administrations, Crown dependencies and overseas territories

  • Sponsorship of: NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Health Research Authority (HRA)

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Helen Whately MP

Minister for Social Care

  • Adult social care: workforce, system assurance and data, tech and innovation, funding, markets, winter planning, safeguarding and liberty protection safeguards

  • Urgent and emergency care, including ambulances

  • Hospital discharge

  • Integration

  • Continuing healthcare

  • Community health services: virtual wards, intermediate care, audiology, social prescribing

  • Dementia

  • End of life and palliative care

  • COVID-19 vaccine licensing

  • Work and health

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Neil O'Brien MP

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Primary Care and Public Health)

  • Primary care: general practice, pharmacy, eye care, backlogs, workforce, 50 million GP appointments, dentistry, prescription charges

  • Blood, transplant and organs

  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID): tobacco, obesity, alcohol, drugs and addiction, NHS Health Check and screening, children’s health and Start for Life, sexual health, health disparities, levelling up

  • Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry

  • Sponsorship of: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Food Standards Agency (FSA)

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Maria Caulfield MP

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy), also Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women)

  • Women’s health

  • Maternity services

  • Gender identity services

  • Cosmetic regulation

  • DHSC litigation

  • Mental health: children and young people and early intervention, Mental Health Act, suicide prevention and crisis prevention, bereavement, disabilities (including autism), offender health

  • Patient safety: clinical negligence, historic inquiries, quality regulation, death certification, indemnity, Patient Safety Commissioner

  • Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

  • Patient experience: ombudsman and complaints, whistleblowing and health ethics

  • UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA): COVID-19 (COVID-19 status certification, variant tracing and shielding), environmental health (air quality, chemicals and radiation), health security at the border, infectious diseases (including mpox), seasonal flu

  • Vaccines: COVID-19 vaccine deployment and uptake, routine immunisations and vaccinations

  • Long COVID

  • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and global health security

  • Emergency preparedness, including Ukraine

  • Sponsorship of: Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), Care Quality Commission (CQC), NHS Resolution, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), Human Tissue Authority (HTA), UKHSA

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Lord Markham CBE

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the Lords)

  • NHS capital, land and estates: New Hospital Programme and hospital upgrades, reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), energy resilience and Net Zero Strategy, car parking

  • Data and technology: NHS IT and data to support innovation, security management and cyber security, Federated Data Platform

  • Departmental management and business

  • Lead statutory instrument (SI) minister, including retained EU laws

  • NHS finance: procurement, cost recovery and immigration health surcharge, counter fraud

  • Lords’ business

  • Sponsorship of: NHS England, NHS Counter Fraud Authority, NHS Property Services

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