Patient Choice Schemes
(asked on 14th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government, what assessment they have made of the proportion of patients who were offered a choice of where they received their NHS consultant-led treatment in each year since 2015.
This information is not held in the format requested. However, NHS Digital has collected data on the proportion of patients offered a choice of provider for elective referrals from those who responded to the Manage Your Referral (MYR) NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) Survey. The MYR e-RS Survey enables patients who have used e-RS for elective referrals for directly bookable services to record their experience of being offered a choice of elective care provider. These results are available to integrated care boards and NHS England to review, assure and improve in order to meet its responsibilities related to patient choice.
The following table shows the responses received to the question “When you agreed to be referred to a specialist, did you talk about the different hospitals or services you could go to?” in each year since 2018.
Year | Yes | No | Don’t know | Sample size |
2018 | 39% | 59% | 2% | 6,962 |
2019 | 38% | 60% | 3% | 4,722 |
2020 | 35% | 62% | 3% | 8,099 |
2021 | 32% | 65% | 2% | 6,158 |
2022 | 31% | 66% | 3% | 5,045 |
The following table shows the responses received to the question “Did you feel that you were able to make choices that met your needs?” in each year since 2018.
Year | Yes | No | Don’t know | Sample size |
2018 | 39% | 59% | 2% | 6,962 |
2019 | 77% | 15% | 9% | 4,722 |
2020 | 77% | 14% | 9% | 8,099 |
2021 | 74% | 16% | 10% | 6,158 |
2022 | 71% | 18% | 11% | 5,045 |