Question follow-through · 22064
Health Services: Runcorn and Helsby
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce NHS waiting lists in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 7 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
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce NHS waiting lists in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission and a top priority for this government. On 6 January 2025, NHS England published the new Elective Reform Plan, part of the Government’s Plan for Change, which sets out a whole system approach to h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Rehabilitation: Health Services
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Care Workers: Pay and Vacancies
7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) the average wages paid to social care sector workers and (b) the current number of vacancies in the sector.
Disabled Facilities Grants
7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local disabled facilities grants.
Brain: Tumours
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prioritise screening for brain tumours.
Prostate Cancer: Screening
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
Drugs and Pharmacy
10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) trends in the level of costs of medicines and (b) potential closures of community pharmacies.
Palliative Care: Health Professions
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of palliative care specialists available in the care system.
Palliative Care: Training
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of training given to palliative care specialists.
Palliative Care: Telephone Services
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a designated out of hours palliative care advice line in every region.
Palliative Care: Finance
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of allocating palliative care funding through a long-term centrally managed, ringfenced grant.
Social Prescribing
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of social prescribing to treat medical conditions.
NHS: Pay
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the next round of discussions between NHS pay review bodies and health unions.