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Patients: Public Participation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the patient and public voice model remains independent of the bodies commissioning, delivering or redesigning services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
4 Jun 2026
Answer
9 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the patient and public voice model remains independent of the bodies commissioning, delivering or redesigning services.

  2. 4 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The priority of our reforms around patient and public voice is not to maintain the current independent structures, but to strengthen the patient and public voices so that they drive real change and improvement at all levels of the health and social care s...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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