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Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to care in the community.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 17 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 21 Oct 2025
Answer: 27 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to care in the community.
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Neighbourhood Health Service will increase access to care in the community and will embody our new preventative principle that care should happen as locally as it can, digitally by default, in a person’s home if possible, in a neighbourhood health cen...

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