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Oxygen: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how NHS England assessed (a) geographic coverage and (b) patient travel time in its hyperbaric oxygen therapy commissioning criteria; and how this was factored into final decisions.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
17 Jun 2025
Answer
20 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how NHS England assessed (a) geographic coverage and (b) patient travel time in its hyperbaric oxygen therapy commissioning criteria; and how this was factored into final decisions.

  2. 17 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The contract for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) services, also known as recompression, was reviewed in 2024, as existing contract terms expired. This included an update of the service specification using the published full methods process, and a public ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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