Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department's Complaints Programme Board has taken to improve the handling of complaints by people with Parkinson's disease who do not receive their medication on time in hospital or a care home.

The Complaints Programme Board is made up of partners across the health and care system working together to improve complaints handling for the benefit of patients, and to deliver specific commitments related to this in the Government's Hard Truths report. It is important that patients understand how to complain about their care or treatment if they wish to. For that reason, we will shortly publish a simple guide describing how to complain so whatever health condition a patient has, or whatever they want to complain about, they can do so easily and find the right support to help them if they need it.