Our consultation response sets out the main issues raised by those who responded to the consultation and any changes that we have made to the mandate as a result.

This year’s consultation attracted a similar number of responses from organisations to previous mandate consultations but the public response was significantly higher than in the past.

We have made a number of significant changes to the mandate as a result, and we have set out how we have changed the final version of the mandate to reflect the feedback received.

Where we do not believe that change is necessary, or where NHS England is not the right body to take on a particular task, we have explained why this is the case. We have listened to concerns that the mandate was pitched at too high a level, and we have provided an annex that sets out in more detail what we expect NHS England to do in order to deliver the mandate successfully.

See NHS mandate 2016 to 2017