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Speech and Language Therapy: Health Services

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 35829, tabled on 13 July 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Department's policy paper Build Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care published in March 2022, whether speech and language therapy services regarded as part of ‘elective care services’.

Answered on

18 July 2022

In England, speech and language therapy services are not consultant-led and therefore not included in the elective care services.

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