Question follow-through · 95268
Ehlers-danlos Syndrome: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve recruitment and training of specialists in Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve recruitment and training of specialists in Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
We recognise that doctors can find it challenging to diagnose Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) because of the wide range and variability of symptoms, and that the most common type, hypermobile EDS, currently has no specific genetic test.Resources such as the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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