Question follow-through · 901297
Surgery: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting lists for elective procedures.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting lists for elective procedures.
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
Patients are waiting too long to access the care they need, with the total waiting list standing at over 7.5 million. Last week we saw the welcome news that waiting lists have fallen. Since we ended the strikes, we have been ramping up delivery of the 2 m...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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