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Genomics: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will announce a timeline for the NHS Genomic Medicine Service to establish a public facing dashboard setting out data on (a) turnaround times and (b) volume of testing activity across each ge

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
26 Jun 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 24 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will announce a timeline for the NHS Genomic Medicine Service to establish a public facing dashboard setting out data on (a) turnaround times and (b) volume of testing activity across each ge

  2. 26 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Since December 2023, National Health Service genomic testing activity data has been published on the NHS England website, and is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/genomic-testing-activity/This sta...

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Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements

3 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend access to free and subsidized vitamin D supplements to at-risk groups identified in NICE PH56.

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