Question follow-through · 57840
Hearing Impairment: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that clinical staff have an adequate understanding of deaf awareness.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that clinical staff have an adequate understanding of deaf awareness.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
Employers in the health system are responsible for ensuring that their staff are trained to the required standards to deliver safe and effective treatment for patients, and to deploy their staff in the best way to ensure the delivery of health services to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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