Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that Clause 5 of the Health Bill will enforce the existing NHS Choice Framework (2024) guidance.

Clause 5 of the Health Bill transfers existing patient choice duties and oversight from NHS England to my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. We remain committed to ensuring that patients can continue to exercise choice in health services. Patients can access the NHS Choice Framework to further understand the options available to them, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nhs-choice-framework/the-nhs-choice-framework-what-choices-are-available-to-me-in-the-nhs