Question follow-through · 902077

Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to shift care from hospitals into the community.

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

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to shift care from hospitals into the community.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    It is vital to move services from hospital to community. The Chancellor made funding available for 380,000 more talking therapies for patients and put in place a £26 million capital investment scheme for mental health crisis centres. A lot of work has bee...

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