Question follow-through · 7149
Health Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to tackle geographical variations in accessing specialist services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to tackle geographical variations in accessing specialist services.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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11 Jun 2026
Answer published
Highly specialised services are typically delivered in a small number of centres across England with experience and expertise in the management of rare diseases where caseloads are small and there is benefit from national coordination.As such it is more l...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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