questionText: 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.
answerText: 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 co...
heading: NHS: Standards