Question follow-through · 5511
Health Services: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards are in place to ensure continuity of care for older people and patients with complex needs during the transition of services from secondary to primary and community care settings.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards are in place to ensure continuity of care for older people and patients with complex needs during the transition of services from secondary to primary and community care settings.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
Enabling people to be discharged from hospital more quickly with the right care and support contributes to speedier recovery and better outcomes for patients and helps prevent loss of independence.To support this, every acute hospital has access to a mult...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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