Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help ensure that vulnerable people receive any medial treatment they need in Enfield North constituency.

North Central London Integrated Care System (NCL ICS) , which covers the Enfield North constituency, has implemented a range of initiatives to ensure vulnerable people receive the medical treatment they need. This includes extending availability of general practitioner appointments to seven days a week, working with communities in the borough to understand their needs and to inform the commissioning and delivery of services, and raising the profile of preventive services, such as NHS cancer screening services and NHS health checks. Specific Inclusion Health initiatives are also being implemented across NCL ICS to target vulnerable groups, like people experiencing homelessness, and specific areas of concern, like blood born viruses.

The NCL Inequalities Fund has funded a variety of projects which, alongside the range of public health and preventative services commissioned by Enfield Local Authority through the Public Health Grant, aim to increase access to health and care services for under-served communities. Some examples of these are smoking cessation services, the ABC Parents Project, oral health promotion services, sexual health services and health visiting services.