Question follow-through · 36056
Arthritis: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support older children with arthritis as they transition to adult health and care services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support older children with arthritis as they transition to adult health and care services.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department has not yet considered the recommendations of the report published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death on 13 February 2025, Joint Care? A review of the quality of care provided to children and young adults wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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