Question follow-through · 27410
Varicose Veins: Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the criteria for removing varicose veins to include the level of pain experienced.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the criteria for removing varicose veins to include the level of pain experienced.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidance identifies several treatment options for those with symptoms or complications associated with varicose veins, including surgery to remove the veins.Pain that is more severe can often be asso...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust: Pay
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NHS: Disclosure of Information
18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) strengthen protections for NHS whistleblowers and (b) prevent repercussions for those who raise patient safety concerns.
Radiology: Staff
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of radiologists working in the NHS in (a) England and (b) Tunbridge Wells Hospital; and what steps he is taking to increase the number of radiologists workin
Shingles: Vaccination
4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility for the shingles vaccination to people aged 65 or over.
IVF: LGBT+ People
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a planned timetable for removing self-funded artificial insemination for same sex couples before they can access NHS-funded in vitro fertilisation.
Injuries: Health Services
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of wound care, in the context of the disbandment of the National Wound Care Strategy Programme in March 2025.
Hearing Impairment: Health Services
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to NHS services for deaf people.
Coeliac Disease: Health Services
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Dermatology: Kent
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Members: Correspondence
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