| Heading: |
Health Services: Standards |
| Question ID: |
1743083 |
| UIN: |
15301 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5075 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Deirdre Costigan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Deirdre Costigan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, If he will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of NHS care at (a) weekends and (b) weekdays. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2024-11-25 |
| Date answered: |
2024-12-04 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The National Health Service is committed to ensuring safe, high-quality care is available to patients seven days a week, whether they require emergency treatment or ongoing care. While there are natural variations in activity levels between weekends and w... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |