Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 120991
Out-patients: Attendance
Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026
Question
Navendu Mishra
Labour — Stockport
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 SmythThe 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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