Health Services
Commons · Question 4448 · Tabled 29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to ensure that Single Point of Access pathways do not prevent patients being referred to consultant-led services where GPs consider it clinically appropriate.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 19 Jun 2026
Under Single Point of Access Pathways, general practitioners (GPs) should continue to make a clinical decision to refer for specialist care where that is in the patient’s best interests. GPs retain responsibility for referral decisions, and this model sup...