Question follow-through · 121009
Spinal Injuries: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department will ensure that low-volume, high-cost services such as spinal cord injury are not deprioritised by individual ICBs facing competing local financial pressures.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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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
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department will ensure that low-volume, high-cost services such as spinal cord injury are not deprioritised by individual ICBs facing competing local financial pressures.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
Plans to delegate suitable specialised services were first set out in the Roadmap for Integrating Specialised Services within Integrated Care Systems and have been developed in close collaboration with NHS England’s regional teams, integrated care boards ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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