Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 13791
Continuing Care: Waiting Lists
Tabled: 12 November 2024
Answered: 20 November 2024
Question
Max Wilkinson
Liberal Democrat — Cheltenham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of waiting times for accessing services through the NHS Continuing healthcare programme on patient outcomes; what assessment he has made of the
Answer
Stephen KinnockStatutory guidance and assurance regimes are in place so that people are assessed and receive care in a timely way. For example, NHS England’s assurance standard requires that integrated care boards (ICBs) must ensure that in more than 80% of cases procee...
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