Question follow-through · 49503
Patients: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to implement the recommendations outlined in the Patient Safety Commissioner's report entitled The Safety Gap, published in March 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to implement the recommendations outlined in the Patient Safety Commissioner's report entitled The Safety Gap, published in March 2025.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
We welcome the Patient Safety Commissioner’s (PSC) report, The Safety Gap – Safety and Accessibility of Medicines and Medical Devices for people with sensory impairment, highlighting the experiences of people with sensory impairment or loss when accessing...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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