Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81857

Clinics: Rural Areas

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve mobile clinic provision in rural areas.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the planning and commissioning of health services, including mobile clinic services.In doing so ICBs must take into account the needs of their local population, which includes meeting the healthcare ne...
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