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NHS England recently announced that hundreds of thousands more people a month will have the option to refer themselves for key services such as help with incontinence, podiatry, or hearing tests without needing to see a GP, as part of the NHS primary care access recovery plan. You can read more about this announcement here.

In spring 2023 we asked for your ideas and experiences about how we could make it easier for people to refer themselves to community health services, without the need to see their GP or other healthcare professional first.

A brilliant 240 ideas were posted about increasing self-referrals – a huge thank you to everyone who took part in self-referral to community health services on Solving Together by sharing their ideas and experiences, voting, commenting, engaging via social media or sharing through their networks. You can read the ideas and experiences here.

It's great to see that even more people will now have the option to refer themselves to key services without needing to see a GP first.

Thank you again, and we look forward to seeing you on the platform again for future sprints.

This post was edited on May 8, 2024 by Solving Together