Question follow-through · 90706

Community Health Services: West Midlands

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

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
17 Nov 2025
Answer
25 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Nov 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 in the West Midlands.

  2. 17 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The 10-Year Health Plan sets out our vision for a Neighbourhood Health Service. The Neighbourhood Health Service 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,...

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