Question follow-through · 4396
Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for delivering 40,000 more NHS appointments per week.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for delivering 40,000 more NHS appointments per week.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2024
Answer published
Reducing elective waiting lists is a key part of getting the National Health Service back on its feet. Delivering 40,000 more NHS appointments per week is part of our commitment to get back to NHS standards, so that people can expect to wait no longer tha...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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