Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to advance the treatment of leg ulcers.

Recent National Health Service guidance supporting improvements to these services is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/standardising-community-health-services-core-component-descriptions/#specialist-tissue-viability-or-wound-care