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Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve diagnostic pathways for those suffering from persistent unexplained symptoms.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2025
Answer: 27 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026

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Recorded timeline

21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve diagnostic pathways for those suffering from persistent unexplained symptoms.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
It's vital that the National Health Service is there when people need it, and that symptoms are investigated to provide a diagnosis promptly, to enable treatment.That is why we are committed to fixing the front door of the NHS and improving access to gene...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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