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Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to simplify health treatments between the UK nations.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
6 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to simplify health treatments between the UK nations.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 6 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    While health is predominantly devolved, the Department holds some reserved functions, and working together across the United Kingdom on health and social care is ingrained in the values of our National Health Service and social care sector.The Department ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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