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Health Services: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that online healthcare provision reflects the needs of diverse modern families.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
9 Dec 2025
Answer
9 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that online healthcare provision reflects the needs of diverse modern families.

  2. 9 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government will establish an “online hospital”, NHS Online, which will give people on certain pathways the choice of getting the specialist care they need from their home. It will connect patients with clinicians across the country through secure, onl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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