Health Services: Reorganisation
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, if he will publish a list of regulatory bodies he plans to merge or abolish.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The 10 Year Health Plan refers to bodies that are being abolished or merged. None of these are regulatory bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission, instead they perform other functions.
As part of the 10 Year Health Plan, we are cutting the number of organisations, bodies and entities overwhelming the National Health Service system and taking focus away from basics of patient care.
The changes we are making will improve quality and safety by making it clear where responsibility and accountability sits at all levels of the system, and making it easier for staff, patients, and users to directly feed into the system to improve quality of care.
However, the 10 Year Health Plan and the Dash Review detail several other organisations that are planned to be abolished or have their functions transferred. These organisations are mentioned in the relevant publications and there are no additional plans to publish a list.
The organisations which are impacted are:
- NHS England;
- the Health Services Safety Investigations Body;
- the National Guardian’s Office;
- Healthwatch England;
- local Healthwatch organisations; and
- Commissioning Support Units.
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