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Health Services and Social Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve NHS health and social care services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Oct 2024
Target answer date
8 Oct 2024
Answer
11 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve NHS health and social care services.

  2. 8 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    We have made it our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future. We aim to shorten the time people spend in ill health, reduce health inequalities, and support economic growth.Reform is at the heart of this mission and will be de...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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