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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support for out of hours doctors services in (a) Tiverton and Minehead constituency and (b) England.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support for out of hours doctors services in (a) Tiverton and Minehead constituency and (b) England.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jan 2025
Answer published
No such assessment has been made by the Department. The commissioning of out of hours services, and to what extent those services are supported, is the responsibility of local commissioners in partnership with their providers, and in the best interest of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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