Question follow-through · 84864
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Harpenden and Berkhamsted
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome have access to (a) specialist (i) clinicians, (ii) nurses, (iii) physiotherapists, (iv) oc
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome have access to (a) specialist (i) clinicians, (ii) nurses, (iii) physiotherapists, (iv) oc
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
Services for people with postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) are commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs). ICBs have a statutory responsibility to provide a health service to the local population, subject to local prioritisation and funding,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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