Question follow-through · 13104
Health Services: Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of compliance with the Accessible Information Standard in the NHS.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of compliance with the Accessible Information Standard in the NHS.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers must comply with the Accessible Information Standard (AIS), to meet the communication needs of patients and carers with a disability, impairment, or sensory loss. The AIS conf...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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