Impact assessment

Health Bill: promoting visiting - impact assessment

Outlines the approach to assessing the objectives, rationale, costs and benefits of the proposals to promote visiting as part of the Health Bill.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 9 September 2026

Applies to England

Documents

Health Bill: promoting visiting - impact assessment

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Details

The Health Bill is supporting 2 overarching aims:

• improve patient safety and experience through a new single patient record (SPR), enabling joined-up, proactive care and empowering patients
• put power and resources in the hands of NHS organisations providing direct patient care by abolishing NHS England and stripping back national bureaucracy

See the Health Bill collection page for the bill’s other supporting documents:

• other impact assessments
• equality impact assessments
• fact sheets

Published 9 September 2026