Question follow-through · 15406
Health Services: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with additional communication needs are able to access (a) online appointment bookings and (b) other digital healthcare services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with additional communication needs are able to access (a) online appointment bookings and (b) other digital healthcare services.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
All National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers in England are required to meet the Accessible Information Standard to meet the communication needs of patients and carers with a disability, impairment, or sensory loss. ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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