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Ophthalmic Services: Patient Choice Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase NHS patient choice within the field of ophthalmology.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
5 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase NHS patient choice within the field of ophthalmology.

  2. 5 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to giving patients greater choice and control over their care and throughout their elective care pathway, including those referred to ophthalmology services.Patients have an existing legal right to choose where they go for thei...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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