Question follow-through · 19998
Heart Diseases: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of sudden deaths in young people due to undiagnosed heart conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of sudden deaths in young people due to undiagnosed heart conditions.
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
NHS England published a national service specification for Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICC) in 2017, which defines the standards of care expected from organisations funded by NHS England. This specification covers young adults with previously undiagnose...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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