Abscesses: Medical Treatments

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source

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 improve outcomes for patients with leg ulcers.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026

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

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