Question follow-through · 61365
Arthritis: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) diagnosis times and (b) access to care for people with inflammatory arthritis.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) diagnosis times and (b) access to care for people with inflammatory arthritis.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
Services for those with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, including arthritis, are commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs). The Department expects MSK services to be fully incorporated into integrated care system planning and decision-making...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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