AQW 52511/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 06/01/2016
Answered On Date: 14/03/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
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.

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.