Question follow-through · 38403
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36169 on Health Services, what tests (a) his Department and (b) NHS England require before a substantial planned service change.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36169 on Health Services, what tests (a) his Department and (b) NHS England require before a substantial planned service change.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The tests the Department requires are set out in NHS England’s guidance to the National Health Service on planning, assuring and delivering service change, which is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/planning-assuring-a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Torbay Hospital: Vacancies
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Prostate Cancer: Research and Screening
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Doctors: Refugees
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of offering (a) guidance or (b) funding support for charities who are assisting refugees with medical qualifications into the NHS.
NHS: Private Sector
28 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that the private sector is used to help reduce NHS waiting lists for the (a) most urgent procedures and (b) patients with the greatest clinical need
Review of Patient Safety across the Health and Care Landscape
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape will be published.
Allergies: Labelling
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Social Prescribing: Finance
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Patients: Safety
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NHS: Software
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) review and (b) improve NHS App accessibility for (i) people with visual impairment and (ii) other people.
Patients: Information
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department take steps with the (a) Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and (b) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to further digitise paper-based patient info