Advice and Guidance Services
Commons · Question 22124 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to pause the expansion of NHS England's advice and guidance policy.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 8 Sep 2026
Advice and Guidance (A&G) is a longstanding policy which helps primary care clinicians and patients receive quicker access to specialist advice. Since the Government came to office, the A&G model has supported over three million patients to receiv...