Committees

Health and Social Care Committee

Commons Select Committee

Welcome to the cross-party Health and Social Care Committee. It is our responsibility to scrutinise the work of the Department of Health and Social Care and its associated public bodies. We examine government policy, spending and administration on behalf of the electorate and the House of Commons. The Committee Chair is the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. You can follow the Committee on Twitter @CommonsHealth

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7 current inquiries

Inquiries allow committees to consider oral and written evidence on a particular topic. They usually result in the publication of a report.

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Management of the Coronavirus Outbreak
Opened 3 March 2020
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of NICE
Report:
Published
On 13 March 2020
Opened 4 March 2020
Social care: funding and workforce
Report:
Published
On 22 October 2020
Opened 10 March 2020
Delivering Core NHS and Care Services during the Pandemic and Beyond
Report:
Published
On 1 October 2020
Opened 22 April 2020
Safety of maternity services in England
Written evidence:
Accepting
Deadline 30 October 2020
Opened 24 July 2020
Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care
Written evidence:
Accepting
Deadline 30 October 2020
Opened 30 July 2020
Coronavirus: lessons learnt
Written evidence:
Accepting
Deadline 30 November 2020
Opened 6 October 2020

Latest news

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MPs call for £7bn annual increase in social care funding as a starting point for reform – doing nothing ‘no longer an option’
The Health and Social Care Committee publishes report on social care funding
22 October 2020
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Health and Social Care Committee to publish report on Social Care: Funding and Workforce
Committee to publish report on Social Care: Funding and Workforce
19 October 2020
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MPs to investigate scale and human impact of staff burnout in NHS and social care
Health and Social Care Committee hears from frontline workers, experts and senior leaders of the social care and NHS workforces on measuring burnout and its implications
16 October 2020

Upcoming events

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Formal meeting (oral evidence session)
3 November 2020 - 9am to 11:30am

Latest publications

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Letter to the Chief People Officer on Workforce projections
Inquiry Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care
Committees Health and Social Care Committee
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Correspondence
Social care: funding and workforce
Inquiry Social care: funding and workforce
Committees Health and Social Care Committee
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Letter to the Secretary of State on long Covid-19
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Correspondence

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  • Email: hsccom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: (Non-media Enquiries) 020 7219 6182 / (Media Enquiries) 020 7219 6832/ 077 5310 1017
  • Address: Health and Social Care Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA