Question follow-through · 85848

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to develop a modern services framework for (a) arthritis and (b) musculorskeletal disease.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
3 Nov 2025
Answer
12 Nov 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to develop a modern services framework for (a) arthritis and (b) musculorskeletal disease.

  2. 3 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    As announced in the 10-Year Health Plan, as well as an overall quality strategy, the National Quality Board will oversee the development of a new series of service frameworks to accelerate progress in conditions where there is potential for rapid and sign...

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