Question follow-through · 18100
Surgery: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national training centre for robotic surgery within the NHS to provide surgical training that is independent of the manufactu
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 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 establishing a national training centre for robotic surgery within the NHS to provide surgical training that is independent of the manufactu
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Department has no current plans to establish such a national training centre. The Department continues to work with the National Health Service and other partners to develop pathways for delivering innovative medical technology into the hands of front...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Cancer and Congenital Abnormalities: Corby
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the ruling of Mr Justice Akenhead in the case of Corby Group Litigation v. Corby Borough Council, if he will conduct a review of the incidence of birth defects and rare cancers recorded