Question follow-through · 907246
Community Health Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve community healthcare in rural areas.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve community healthcare in rural areas.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government’s 10 Year Health Plan commits to three big shifts which includes increasingly moving services away from centralised hospitals into the wider community. Integrated care boards are responsible for the planning and commissioning of health serv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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General Practitioners: Rural Areas
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