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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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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  1. 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.

  2. 25 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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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.

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Eyesight: Rare Diseases

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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.

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Ophthalmic Services: Waiting Lists

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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.

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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.

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Health Services: Disability

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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.

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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.

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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.