Question follow-through · 71598
Accident and Emergency Departments: Neurology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Type 1 emergency departments in England currently operate without an on-site neurology service.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Type 1 emergency departments in England currently operate without an on-site neurology service.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
In 2021, NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme shared its national specialty report for neurology following deep dive visits to all 24 neuroscience regions, then to the 67 trusts that together deliver neurology services to 139 sites....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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