Question follow-through · 128698
Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will require Integrated Care Boards to establish a single point of contact for families affected by the pause of Right to Choose pathways.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will require Integrated Care Boards to establish a single point of contact for families affected by the pause of Right to Choose pathways.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning services to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including supporting children and young people waiting for assessment or treatment. While there are no plans to require I...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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