Question follow-through · 1341
Health Services: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all NHS providers are producing information in format that is in line with the Accessible Information Standard.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all NHS providers are producing information in format that is in line with the Accessible Information Standard.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
Under the Equality Act (2010), health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged. National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers must comply with the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Health Services: Disability
30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1339 on Accessible Information Standard, for what reason NHS England cannot provide a specific date for publication.
Health: Information
12 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all NHS information systems can print information in accessible formats.
Health Services: Disability
8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2469 on Health Services: Disability, when he expects NHS England's review of the Accessible Information Standard to be published.
Eyesight: Rare Diseases
6 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients living with rare inherited retinal diseases receive (a) timely and (b) equitable access to new treatments.
Rare Diseases: Health Services
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) assessment of and (b) access to specialist treatments for rare diseases.
Ophthalmic Services: Waiting Lists
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will require NHS England to publish Referral To Treatment waiting times for (a) glaucoma, (b) macular degeneration and (c) other irreversible sight loss conditions separately from minor and r
Ophthalmic Services: Children
11 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to outpatient paediatric ophthalmology of (a) cancelled appointments and (b) appointments missed because the patient did not attend in 2023-24.
Ophthalmic Services: Children
11 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointments for children under 19 years were (a) cancelled and (b) missed because the patient did not attend in 2023-24.
Health Services: Disability
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of making the NHS Accessible Information Standard mandatory in all NHS England health and social care settings on the ability of (a) deaf and (b)
Health and Care Act 2022
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expediting the implementation of section 95 of the Health and Care Act 2022 on the rights of disabled people.
Health: Disabled
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the cross-government Health Mission Board plans to take to help tackle the impact of poverty on the health of disabled people.
Health Services: Information
29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 32209 on Health and Care Act 2022, when he expects the Accessible Information Standard to (a) be published and (b) become mandatory.