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Lipoedema: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that efforts to improve access to diagnosis and treatment for lipoedema adequality align with the Government’s commitments under the Women’s Health Strategy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
27 Jan 2026
Answer
28 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that efforts to improve access to diagnosis and treatment for lipoedema adequality align with the Government’s commitments under the Women’s Health Strategy.

  2. 27 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The refreshed Women’s Health Strategy will play a central role in improving outcomes for women living with long‑term conditions like lipoedema by addressing the systemic barriers that have historically contributed to delayed diagnosis, variability in care...

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