Question follow-through · 21524

Orthopaedics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of activity blades for amputees over 18.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 19 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 7 Jan 2025
Answer: 8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of activity blades for amputees over 18.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
Prosthetics services are overseen by NHS England. They do not commission activity blades for amputees over 18 years old, and have no current plans change this.Currently, NHS England provides adult amputees primary prostheses, activity limbs, and adaptatio...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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