Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 78932

Patients: Complaints

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 23 October 2025

Question

James Naish

LabourRushcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to ensure that patients have access to independent statutory mechanisms for raising concerns about health and care services following the proposed abolition of local Healthw

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The report by Dr Penny Dash, published in July, recommended bringing together the work of local Healthwatch organisations, and the engagement functions of integrated care boards (ICBs) and providers, to ensure patient and wider community input into the pl...

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