Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 120991

Out-patients: Attendance

Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026

Question

Navendu Mishra

LabourStockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to work towards implementing a standardised Attendance Policy for all NHS organisations in England; and if he will set out a timeline for when this will be final

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department does not mandate a single national attendance policy for the National Health Service. Responsibility for workforce attendance management sits with individual NHS organisations who are responsible for setting and applying local attendance po...

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