Question follow-through · 99614
Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Essex
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve early diagnosis and treatment for people living with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in Essex.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve early diagnosis and treatment for people living with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in Essex.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to improving outcomes for people living with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, including those in Essex.NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) gastroenterology programme is supporting local integrated care boar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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