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West Berkshire Community Hospital

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will support plans to relocate additional facilities to West Berkshire Community Hospital to help ease pressures at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
12 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will support plans to relocate additional facilities to West Berkshire Community Hospital to help ease pressures at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    National Health Service commissioners are responsible for delivery, implementation, and funding decisions for services, rather than the Department. Local health and care organisations are best placed to make decisions on commissioning services for their c...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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