NHS England (NHSE) shares responsibility with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for promoting a comprehensive health system in England, for securing improvements in physical and mental health, and for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ill-health.
NHS England is responsible for arranging the provision of health services and for more than £186 billion of funds.
The Government sets out its priorities for NHSE in a statutory mandate. The Secretary of State has a legal duty to keep NHSE’s performance against the mandate under review and publish an assessment of its overall performance annually.
The Government has decided that NHS England and the Department will increasingly work as ‘one team’ and this will be reflected in both the working practices of staff and the leadership expectations of the Chair and others. While the organisations will remain di...