Question follow-through · 21172
Disability Aids: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote patient awareness of walking aid return and reuse schemes, (b) promote NHS staff awareness of the possibility of establishing those schemes and (c
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote patient awareness of walking aid return and reuse schemes, (b) promote NHS staff awareness of the possibility of establishing those schemes and (c
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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6 Jan 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service is committed to reducing its environmental impact, and in 2020, published its Delivering a Net Zero NHS strategy, committing to reach net zero by 2045.The NHS recognises that reusing walking aids, such as crutches, frames, and ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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