Health Services: Rural Areas

(asked on 20th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the challenges of providing healthcare in remote and rural areas.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 12th October 2021

The development of integrated care systems will create a new method of responding to and tackling local challenges, such as delivering healthcare in remote and rual areas. NHS England continues to work with trusts to develop a standard model of delivery in smaller acute hospitals which serve rural populations as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.

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