Question follow-through · 23848
Social Prescribing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with (a) NHS England and (b) social care providers on expanding opportunities for social prescribing.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with (a) NHS England and (b) social care providers on expanding opportunities for social prescribing.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Department and NHS England work closely together to deliver the social prescribing work programme.I met with representatives of the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) on 13 January, a key stakeholder in this field. At the meeting, I confir...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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