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Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for the 10-year Health Plan of the report by the National Clinical Homecare Association entitled Best Kept Secret: The Value Of Clinical

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 28 Apr 2025
Answer: 30 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for the 10-year Health Plan of the report by the National Clinical Homecare Association entitled Best Kept Secret: The Value Of Clinical
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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30 Apr 2025
Answer published
We have committed to develop a 10-Year Health Plan to deliver a National Health Service fit for the future. As part of these reforms, we are determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and families recei...

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