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Primary Health Care

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 23076, tabled on 28 June 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government’s White Paper, Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all, whether he has made an assessment of who will be responsible for the continuum of self care for self-treatable conditions.

Answered on

6 July 2021

Integrated care systems will have a key role in considering how best to support self-care, working with their partners across acute care, primary care and local authorities. The National Health Service promotes self-care when appropriate and has commissioned a range of information, advice and support to help people do so.