Question follow-through · 4127
Emergency Calls: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a strategy to reduce waiting times on the 111 Option 2 crisis response service.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a strategy to reduce waiting times on the 111 Option 2 crisis response service.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
To ensure that crisis care services are safe, effective, and consistently provide high quality care across England, NHS England has asked all crisis care services accessible via NHS 111 option two to move at pace and begin reporting access, responsiveness...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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