Question follow-through · 111963
Prosthetics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to help ensure the long term availability of training courses for people to qualify as clinicians and technicians in Prosthetics and Orthotics.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 20 Feb 2026 · 11 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
- Prosthetics: Training · 10 Mar 2026
- Prosthetics: Training · 10 Mar 2026
- Prosthetics: Staff · 10 Mar 2026
- Doctors: Training · 10 Mar 2026
- Doctors: Training · 10 Mar 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to help ensure the long term availability of training courses for people to qualify as clinicians and technicians in Prosthetics and Orthotics.
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Feb 2026
Answer published
Higher education institutions are independent providers and are responsible for making their own decisions about course delivery and viability based on learner demand and provider capacity.NHS England continues to work closely with the British Association...
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.
Prosthetics: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department or NHS England has undertaken a risk assessment on the potential closure of prosthetics and orthotics pre-registration programmes.
Prosthetics: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether discussions have taken place between his Department and (a) NHS England, (b) the British Association of Prosthetics and Orthotics and (c) universities on the sustainability of prosthetics a
Prosthetics: Staff
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include workforce projections and training requirements for prosthetics and orthotics as a distinct profession within the update to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
Doctors: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors have applied to qualify as consultants under the Portfolio Pathway route over the last five years for which data is available.
Doctors: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors have qualified as consultants under the Portfolio Pathway route over the last five years for which data is available.
Doctors: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has been the average length of time to decide an application under the Portfolio Pathway route for each of the last five years for which data is available.
Doctors: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Portfolio Pathway system for qualification as consultants.
Doctors: Training
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of sufficiently qualified assessors to review portfolios under the Portfolio Pathway system.
Functional Neurological Disorder: Medical Treatments
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what treatment is available for people with Functional Neurological Disorder.
Dogs: Allergies
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help protect people with dog allergies.