{"value":{"id":1195000,"askingMemberId":4641,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-05-12T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-05-18T00:00:00","uin":"46134","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the health of chronically ill patients who are unable to safely attend hospital for care.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4362,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-05-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>We have continued to deliver the most urgent treatments, such as emergency and urgent cancer care, throughout the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>With evidence suggesting that we are passing the peak of this wave of COVID-19, and with the National Health Service well-placed to provide world-leading care for those who do still have the virus, we are bringing back non-urgent services that had been temporarily suspended.</p><p>In the absence of face-to-face visits, primary and secondary care clinicians have been asked to stratify and proactively contact their high-risk patients to educate on specific symptoms and circumstances needing urgent hospital care and ensure appropriate ongoing care plans are delivered.</p><p> </p><p>Doctors will always have the safety of patients at the centre of any decisions they make.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":"2020-05-18T00:00:00","attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Coronavirus: Chronic Illnesses","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1195000","method":"GET"}]}