| Heading: |
Health Services: Rural Areas |
| Question ID: |
1803889 |
| UIN: |
53037 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4118 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir Julian Smith
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| Asking Member handle: |
JulianSmithuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JulianSmithuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide mobile health services to support rural agricultural communities where (a) committing and (b) travelling to appointments at set times can be a challenge. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-27 |
| 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: |
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning healthcare services that meet the needs of their local populations. When ICBs exercise their functions, they have a duty to reduce inequalities between persons with respect to their ability t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |