Clinics: Rural Areas
(asked on 14th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve mobile clinic provision in rural areas.
This question was answered on 20th November 2025
The integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the planning and commissioning of health services, including mobile clinic services.
In doing so ICBs must take into account the needs of their local population, which includes meeting the healthcare needs of their rural populations.
The Government’s 10-Year Health Plan commits to three big shifts which includes increasingly moving services away from centralised hospitals into the wider community.