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Patient Choice Schemes

Question for Department of Health

UIN 3431, tabled on 22 June 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to promote the use of the Choose and Book system.

Answered on

30 June 2015

The NHS e-Referral Service replaced the previous electronic system, Choose and Book, on 15 June 2015.

The NHS England Operations Department, with the support of the Health and Social Care Information Centre will take the lead in promoting this service in the future, supporting local health communities to increase their use of the service and providing training, advice and reports to help them become fully electronic.