Question follow-through · 100013
Patients: Advocacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what geographic barriers there are to accessing independent advocacy services for patients in rural areas, including Wiltshire; and what steps he is taking to help tackle those barriers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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- Diabetes: Children · 23 Feb 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what geographic barriers there are to accessing independent advocacy services for patients in rural areas, including Wiltshire; and what steps he is taking to help tackle those barriers.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2025
Answer published
Advocacy services play an important role in helping patients' voices to be heard and in ensuring their legal rights are protected. Guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence indicates that advocacy can provide several benefit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Diabetes: Children
23 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of 18 were newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in each of the last five years, and how many of those cases involved hospital admission through accident and emergenc