Question follow-through · 6554
Dementia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with complex dementia needs, including those requiring one-to-one support, can access safe and suitable care placements following discharge
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with complex dementia needs, including those requiring one-to-one support, can access safe and suitable care placements following discharge
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the challenges in securing suitable care placements for people with complex needs including dementia. National Health Service bodies and local authorities are expected to work together to plan discharge early and ensure that care...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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