Question follow-through · 31083
Audiology: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of certified Auditory Verbal Therapists.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of certified Auditory Verbal Therapists.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
Audiology services in the National Health Service, including provision of therapies for children with hearing loss, are locally commissioned. In summer 2025, we will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan to deliver the transformed health service we...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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