Speeches by Craft.

“You touched on tracking spend on individual children. Is there something in that about how accountability can follow from that? If ICBs have put x amount of resource into an individual, the onus is almost on them to make sure that that resource has been spent well. Maybe there is something on their own internal account…”

“You touched on tracking spend on individual children. Is there something in that about how accountability can follow from that? If ICBs have put x amount of resource into an individual, the onus is almost on them to make sure that that resource has been spent well. Maybe there is something on their own internal account…”

“Do you think that leadership is ministerial steer or are you looking for people who work in NHS England, for example, or at the ICB level, or is it throughout the organisation?”

“I am here guesting today from the Health and Social Care Committee. I have been incredibly interested in your thoughts around collaborative working—how that might look going forward. I did have a question about how effective current accountability mechanisms are in that space, and I think we have probably covered that.…”

“Do you think that leadership is ministerial steer or are you looking for people who work in NHS England, for example, or at the ICB level, or is it throughout the organisation?”

“I am here guesting today from the Health and Social Care Committee. I have been incredibly interested in your thoughts around collaborative working—how that might look going forward. I did have a question about how effective current accountability mechanisms are in that space, and I think we have probably covered that.…”

“18. If she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the English devolution Bill on local public services.”

“The catastrophic impact of the level of debt left behind by the previous Conservative council is being felt all over Thurrock. Our services have been cut to the absolute quick, and delivery for residents is at an all-time low. Although I welcome the impact that devolution will have on growth and value for money, what r…”

“What are those core principles? On the one hand, you said that having a single assessment framework is laudable, but on the other hand you said that you cannot unite the health and the social care sectors, because clearly you cannot have consistency across both in a single framework. What are the core principles that y…”

“What is the longest that people are having to wait, outside of that 10-day timeframe? Do you track that?”

“Do you have an idea of the numbers in that backlog?”

“So there is potential there for quite significant safeguarding issues around people flagging things early on.”

“Do you think single-word assessments are fit for purpose? When people look at a CQC rating, will they understand that the provider they are looking at will give the care for themselves or their loved one?”

“To pick up on backlogs of notifications and information of concern, are providers not being notified that you have concerns around the way in which they have been operating following an inspection?”

“I will pick up on the last point you made, and then we will move on to talk about the single assessment framework in more detail. You mentioned the backlogs that you currently have, and you have expressed that you recognise there is a need to change the way in which the CQC operates. Are you confident that you have the…”

“Thank you. To move slightly on into the single assessment framework in general—”

“Would that mean someone has made a report of a concern and they have not received a response since August?”

“That is the concern, isn’t it—that the triaging system is effective? If you have reported something that you have a concern around, it may need further action, or it may not. You need to know that someone has seen that who knows how to make an appropriate decision. It feels like, at the moment, there is a potential for…”

“You can appreciate the level of shock that we felt on that. Without understanding what that particular case entails, there could be a significant issue behind that. I will just move slightly on from this to the single assessment framework. The development and implementation of the single assessment framework appears to…”

“I understand that they were made for a good reason. There is definitely something in making sure that people have an idea of how their health provider is assessed so they can make those kinds of judgments themselves, but it clearly doesn’t work. Something clearly went wrong in the design and development. You are now lo…”