Question follow-through · 26985
Respiratory Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) physical, (b) emotional and (c) financial support for people diagnosed with (i) Pulmonary Fibrosis and (ii) Interstitial Lung Disease.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) physical, (b) emotional and (c) financial support for people diagnosed with (i) Pulmonary Fibrosis and (ii) Interstitial Lung Disease.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
NHS England is responsible for the commissioning of interstitial lung disease (ILD) services, and funds the anti-fibrotic treatments that are part of the treatment pathway for ILD. The national service specification describes the standards required of cli...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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