Question follow-through · 12824
Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on reducing waiting lists for planned care in Essex.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on reducing waiting lists for planned care in Essex.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission. We will deliver an extra two million operations, scans, and appointments, equivalent to 40,000 per week, in our first year, as part of our commitment to ensuring patients can expect to be treated...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Defibrillators
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3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of (a) adverse events and (b) rare side effects reported after receiving a covid-19 vaccine.
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12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the support provided via the NHS England Recovery Support Programme (RSP) to the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation.