Evidence and submissions

The work of every Government department is scrutinised by a departmental select committee of the House of Commons. The committees also conduct specific inquiries relating to the departments' work. Select committees accept written representations and receive oral evidence from a series of witnesses. Often these hearings take place in public. Click on the links below to download recent evidence submitted from the NHS Confederation to select committees.

• Health Select Committee
• Public Administration Select Committee
• The Conservative Public Service Improvement Group
• The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) Health Committee

Health Select Committee

The NHS Confederation regularly gives written and oral evidence to the Health Select Committee. We have given written evidence for inquiries on:

• Patient and public involvement (PPI)
• Workforce needs and planning
• NHS deficits
• Changes to primary care trusts (CPLNHS)
• Smoking in public places
• Continuing care arrangements
• Public Health White Paper
• New medical technologies within the NHS.

As part of the Health Select Committee's recent inquiry into Patient and public involvement, the NHS Confederation gave oral evidence to the Committee. Read the uncorrected transcript of the evidence session.

Public Administration Select Committee

The NHS Confederation also regularly gives written and oral evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee. We have given written evidence for inquiries on:

Public Services: Putting People First

The Conservative Public Service Improvement Group

The Public Service Improvement policy group is one of four key consultation groups set up by David Cameron to formulate future Conservative policy. The Public Service Improvement Group released their interim report and consultation on health in October 2006, entitled 'The Wellbeing of the Nation'. The NHS Confederation submitted written evidence to the consultation.

CPSIG submission.

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) Health Committee

As a key health stakeholder, the NHS Confederation submitted evidence to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) Health Committee enquiry 'to review the progress of the NHS under Labour and the mix of the private sector providers in the NHS and the roles, limits and regulation of markets in the National Health Service'. This committee is one of a range Labour Party committees which work in parallel to the Departments of State.

Submissions were invited to be presented to the Secretary of State and her ministerial team as well as forming a basis of a submission to the PLP and the Labour Party's National Policy Forum.

PLP submission.