Question follow-through · 11575
Heart Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting lists for cardiac treatments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting lists for cardiac treatments.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2024
Answer published
Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission. The waiting list for England at the end of August stood at 7.64 million patient pathways, with 418,669 waiting for treatment for cardiology.We will deliver an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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