| Heading: |
Audiology: Health Services |
| Question ID: |
1797299 |
| UIN: |
48083 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
152 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir Iain Duncan Smith
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Iain Duncan Smith
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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 move toward patient self-referral for community audiology services as a default pathway in (a) Chingford and Woodford Green constituency and (b) England. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
Community audiology services are commissioned by integrated care boards. The priorities and operational planning guidance states that systems are expected to put in place self-referral routes to community audiology services. This was reiterated in the Del... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |