Question follow-through · 83606
Community Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase capacity in community-based health and social care.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase capacity in community-based health and social care.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Neighbourhood Health Service will increase access to care in the community and 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 centre w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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