Question follow-through · 116885
Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued guidance to integrated care boards on local commissioning in the context of patients’ legal right to choose under the NHS Choice Framework.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued guidance to integrated care boards on local commissioning in the context of patients’ legal right to choose under the NHS Choice Framework.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to patients having the right to choose their provider when referred to consultant-led treatment, or to a mental health professional, for their first appointment as an outpatient. Patients’ right to choose is set out in legislat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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