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Health Services: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a tracking coding system to record people in temporary accommodation that access health services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a tracking coding system to record people in temporary accommodation that access health services.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    There is no central requirement on what information is captured in local clinical or Patient Administration Systems about people’s housing status and whether they are in temporary accommodation.The NHS Data Model and Dictionary, however, provides a refere...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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