Question follow-through · 73440
Neurology: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of neurology departments in NHS hospitals.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2025 · 7 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, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of neurology departments in NHS hospitals.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning most services for people with long term conditions, including neurological conditions. ICBs are allocated funding by NHS England to meet local need and priorities and to improve outcomes. NHS...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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