Question follow-through · 9624
Community Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to (a) increase funding available and (b) improve recruitment for community hospitals.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to (a) increase funding available and (b) improve recruitment for community hospitals.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
Departmental budgets for 2025/26 will be confirmed at my Rt Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s next Budget, on 30 October 2024. We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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