Question follow-through · 34128
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce health disparities amongst ethnic minority communities in the treatment of (a) arthritis and (b) musculoskeletal conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce health disparities amongst ethnic minority communities in the treatment of (a) arthritis and (b) musculoskeletal conditions.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Race Equality Foundation’s report, Musculoskeletal conditions and Black, Asian and minority ethnic people: addressing health inequalities, commissioned by what was then Public Health England, identified that some Black, Asian and minority ethnic group...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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