DH’s key roles

1. DH’s key roles Purpose:to improve Public Health and Well Being in England Strategic System and Accountability Role • Accountability to Parliament and the public • Legislation • Strategies and Outcomes – setting overall strategies and maintaining outcomes frameworks • Resources – acquiring and accounting for resources • Stewardship – especially iro ALBs Policy Role • Public health policy • Social care policy – legislation, system re-design and implementation • OGD agendas – where they impact on health outcomes • Relationships with other players – local government, national bodies, voluntary, social enterprise and private sectors Business Support Services • Leadership of corporate service provision across DH and ALBs

2. NHS CB key roles Purpose: toensure that the NHS delivers better outcomes for patients within its available resources • Allocating and accounting for NHS resources • Directly commissioning services, including primary medical care, other family health services, specialised commissioning, offender and some military health • Establishing, supporting and holding GP consortia to account • Promoting choice and patient and public engagement • Supporting continuous improvements in equality and outcomes of NHS-funded services • Reducing inequalities in access to outcomes and healthcare • Overseeing planning for emergency resilience and leading NHS operational response to significant emergencies

3. PHE key roles Purpose: to protect and improve the public’s health and well being • Providing system leadership and a powerful and authoritative national voice for public health in England • Driving and enabling delivery of improved outcomes in health and well-being by providing evidence and intelligence to underpin action across the public health system, and through its relationships with NHSCB and local authorities • Designing and maintaining systems and providing services to protect the population against current and future threats to health • Communicating with the public to help individuals protect and improve their own health • Accountable as an Executive Agency to DH

4. HEE key roles Purpose: accountable to SofS for maintaining the system for healthcare professional education and training in England • Providing national leadership on planning and developing the health care workforce • Authorising and supporting the development of healthcare provider education and training networks • Promoting high quality education and training responsive to the changing needs of patients and local communities • Allocating and accounting for NHS education and training resources and the outcomes achieved

5. NHS TDA key roles Purpose: to provide governance and accountability for NHS Trusts in England and delivery of the Foundation Trust pipeline Strategic system role • Delivering a fully autonomous and enabled provider landscape with organisations that have long-term clinical and financial sustainability Operational role Fulfil SofS duties in relation to: • performance management of NHS Trusts • management of the FT pipeline • monitor clinical quality, governance and risk in NHS Trusts • public appointments to NHS Trusts and NHS charities Accountability role • Accountable to DH, Parliament and the public