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Defence Medical Services

Commons · Question 57173 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) clinical research and (b) innovation developed using NHS funding is shared with Defence Medical Services to support operational medicine.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 20 Jun 2025

NHS England works closely with the Defence Medical Services to support operational medicine, and this includes considering clinical research and innovation and how this can be implemented to support the Armed Forces. A partnership agreement is in place be...