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Continuing Care: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of waiting times for accessing services through the NHS Continuing healthcare programme on patient outcomes; what assessment he has made of the

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
14 Nov 2024
Answer
20 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 12 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of waiting times for accessing services through the NHS Continuing healthcare programme on patient outcomes; what assessment he has made of the

  2. 14 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 Nov 2024

    Answer published

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  4. 5 Dec 2024

    Answer corrected

    Statutory guidance and assurance regimes are in place so that people are assessed and receive care in a timely way. For example, NHS England’s assurance standard requires that integrated care boards (ICBs) must ensure that in more than 80% of cases procee...

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