Health Services

(asked on 29th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand the delivery of personalised healthcare.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 7th April 2022

The Department has committed to increasing personalisation and patient choice, with the aim of four million people benefiting from personalised care by March 2024. The My Planned Care platform has been launched to provide personalised information on waiting times by specialty and region. We are also ensuring patients are consistently offered choice on their own care at the point of referral and to patients with the longest waiting times through a national hub model. Perioperative care co-ordination teams have been established to develop personalised plans.

In 2019, the Personalised Care Group published the action plan ‘Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model’, which brings together six components: personal health budgets; personalised care and support; enabling choice; social prescribing and community-based support; supported self-management; and shared decision making.

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