questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of plans to outsource hundreds of staff by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust on (a) NHS services and the (b) healthcare workforce.
answerText: Contract award decisions in the National Health Service fall directly to individual NHS bodies, which are responsible for running their own procurement exercises. Ministers do not have general powers in legislation to direct NHS trusts in relation to the ...
heading: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Staff