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Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 23773, tabled on 14 January 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS England 987 inclusion health scheme on access to A&E services outside of the scope of that scheme.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

20 January 2025

Access to National Health Service care at accident and emergency departments, and the waiting times at the point of delivery for those services, will always be based on clinical priority.

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