Patient Choice Schemes
Commons · Question 38150 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that elective service changes to the NHS Payment Scheme comply with legislation on the NHS Right to Choose.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 Mar 2025
Patients will continue to have the right to choose their provider as set out in legislation. The proposed NHS Payment Scheme does not and cannot change this.The Government is committed to patients having the right to choose their provider when referred to...