Written questions

Patients: Public Participation

Commons · Question 6077 · Tabled 2 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

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.

Answer

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill, 9 Jun 2026

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...