Health Services: Standards
(asked on 11th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to give patients the right to an urgent second medical opinion.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 20th September 2023
The Department is actively considering how this proposal can be developed and implemented in the National Health Service. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, has asked the Patient Safety Commissioner to convene NHS England and others to urgently consider this matter in detail and to make recommendations.