Question follow-through · 115678

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of regional variations in access to (a) nursing and (b) residential home spaces for patients waiting to be discharged.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Feb 2026
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2026
Answer: 5 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of regional variations in access to (a) nursing and (b) residential home spaces for patients waiting to be discharged.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2026
Answer published
Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the needs of their population. That is why, under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market and to commission a range of high-quality, sustainable,...

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