AQW 52511/11-16 Written question to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety whether responses to the Public Health Agency's Lifeline consultation will be analysed independent of (i) officials that commission the service; (ii) people that manage the performance reporting relationship with the Lifeline service provider contract; (iii) people that devised the proposed consultation options; (iv) people that will advise the Public Health Agency Board; and (v) people that managed this consultation process.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 6 January 2016
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 6 January 2016
- Answer due by
- 21 January 2016
- Answered
- 14 March 201668 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Effective analysis of the consultation responses on the proposed new Lifeline service requires detailed knowledge of the existing service including the standards it is required to meet. Public Health Agency staff who manage both the Lifeline service contract and the consultation process on a new service are involved in the analysis of the consultation responses and in the development of the consultation report. This report will be considered by the Board of the Agency and submitted to the Department.