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Health Services: Weather

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 21 March 2025UIN 38738

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2025 to Question 24312 on Health Services: Pensioners, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of holding that data centrally.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Department does not intend to collect this data. Annual budgets given to integrated care boards cover most National Health Service spending. The allocations process uses a statistical formula to make geographic distribution fair and objective, so that it reflects local healthcare need, including demand for services during the winter period. In addition, there are no plans to link NHS activity data to data on whether an individual is drawing a pension.

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