Question follow-through · 115560
Achalasia: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of achalasia.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 34 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 steps his Department is taking to improve (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of achalasia.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to improving the diagnosis and treatment of achalasia. Work is underway to support an increase in the use of the Advice and Refer/Single Point of Access model, which can in turn improve waiting times for all gastro patients, in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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