Question follow-through · 52762
Social Services: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to hold discussions with suppliers of medical equipment to community care services on social care reform.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to hold discussions with suppliers of medical equipment to community care services on social care reform.
19 May 2025
Target answer date
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20 May 2025
Answer published
On 30 January 2025, NHS England published guidance on Standardising community health services, specifically codifying core services, which can be found at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/standardising-community-health-services/Comm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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