Question follow-through · 22870

NHS Walk-in Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of walk-in centres.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 8 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 13 Jan 2025
Answer: 14 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of walk-in centres.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
Integrated commissioning boards, in their commissioning of unscheduled and urgent care services, are responsible for determining where services will be most effective, and this may be co-located with the local emergency department or be a standalone servi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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