Question follow-through · 33557
Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure a patients right of choice is not impacted by the proposed 2025-26 NHS payment scheme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure a patients right of choice is not impacted by the proposed 2025-26 NHS payment scheme.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
A patients’ right to choose is set out in legislation, and the proposed 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme (NHSPS) makes no changes to this right. As required by the Health and Care Act 2022, NHS England has conducted an assessment of the impact of the proposed N...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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