Question follow-through · 107121

Doctors and Students: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of reasonable adjustments for disabled doctors and medical students in the NHS.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
22 Jan 2026
Answer
26 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Health and care

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of reasonable adjustments for disabled doctors and medical students in the NHS.

  2. 22 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    No assessment has been made. Employers have a legal duty under the Equality Act 2010 to consider and make reasonable adjustments for employees who have a disability, taking advice from their local occupational health and human resources department.The NHS...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Coronavirus: Vaccination

27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing vaccinations against Covid-19 for children and adults who have Long Covid.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments

27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of increasing NICE's cost-effectiveness thresholds used to evaluate Highly Specialised Technologies for rare diseases.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments

27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on the annual meeting held to discuss

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rare Diseases: Health Services

27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in regard to the upcoming closure of the the UK Rare Diseases Framework, what alternative evaluation methods will be used to assess and ensure the continued improvement of access to specialist care

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments

27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)'s current Highly Specialised Technologies Guidance, specifically where it does not recomm

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Coronavirus: Vaccination

2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to assess the need for the provision of the vaccination against Covid for (a) children and (b) adults who are suffers of Long-Covid.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

5 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding schemes his Department provides for medical researchers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

5 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what applicant-led funding streams are available to medical researchers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Midwives: Screening

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) to what extent and (b) via what methods midwives are assessed for asking whether treatment for abnormal cervical cells has taken place at the first appointment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pregnancy: Screening

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, at what time between 16 and 19 weeks trusts are assessed for providing the national standard of a scan to be provided between 16 to 19 weeks.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: Women

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to what extent her Department assesses whether NHS health trusts are providing a mechanism for women to report concerns about not being listened to.