Health Services: Information
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making the Accessible Information Standard a statutory requirement.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
A revised Accessible Information Standard (AIS) was published on 1 July 2025 and is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/accessible-information-standard/
NHS England is supporting implementation of the standard. Mandatory information standards will be introduced in a staged process; there is no timeline at present for issuing a mandatory NHS Accessible Information Standard.
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