The Health and Social Care Committee has established and commissioned a politically impartial panel of experts to conduct an evaluation – independently of the Committee – of the Government’s commitments in different areas of healthcare policy. The Expert Panel will produce a report after each evaluation which will be sent to the Committee to review. The final report will include a CQC-style rating of the progress the Government has made against achieving its own commitments. The Expert Panel’s second evaluation will be of the progress the Government has made against its own commitments in the area of cancer services in England.
The Expert Panel is chaired by Professor Dame Jane Dacre, and is comprised or core (i.e. permanent) members and subject specialists.
Core members of the Expert Panel are:
Professor John Appleby;
Sir Robert Francis QC;
Anita Charlesworth; and
Professor Stephen Peckham.
Cancer services specialist members of the Expert Panel are:
Professor Samreen Ahmed
Professor Janet E Brown
Dr Jeanette Dickson
Nikki Morris
Minesh Patel
An overview of the Expert Panel’s work is available here: https://ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/health-and-social-care-committee-expert-panel/index.html
Further information on the Expert Panel is set out in the Health & Social Care Committee Special Report: Process for independent evaluation of progress on Government commitments (5 August 2020).