Question follow-through · 61331
Epilepsy: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the occurrences of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the occurrences of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
At a national level, there are a number of initiatives supporting service improvement and better care for patients with epilepsy, including the RightCare Epilepsy Toolkit, the Getting It Right First Time Programme for Neurology, and the Neurology Transfor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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