Question follow-through · 5648
Health: Information
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 9 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
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.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Oct 2024
Answer published
Under the Accessible Information Standard, services should verify that where a patient needs to access information on a website, it is accessible to them. If not, services should make the information available in another way, for instance as a paper copy,...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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