Rare Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 8th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2022, published on 28 February, whether they will publish a list of services where inequitable access has been identified.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th December 2022

There are no specific plans to do so. NHS England has committed to discuss inequities with all highly specialised services to explore how this can be considered in all provider selection exercises and to record improvements which have been secured following specific interventions.

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