Question follow-through · 85640

Health Professions: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting the (a) training and (b) deployment of UK health staff to Ukraine.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
29 Oct 2025
Answer
6 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting the (a) training and (b) deployment of UK health staff to Ukraine.

  2. 29 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    There are options for National Health Service staff to voluntarily provide healthcare support on a humanitarian basis and separately to their NHS duties. For example, humanitarian medical charities such as UK Med are active in Ukraine with NHS clinicians ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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