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Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) value-weighted activity appointments and (b) diagnostic NHS appointments that will take place in (i) 2024-25, (ii) 2025-26 and (iii) by th
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 11 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
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) value-weighted activity appointments and (b) diagnostic NHS appointments that will take place in (i) 2024-25, (ii) 2025-26 and (iii) by th
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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7 Mar 2025
Answer published
As set out in the Plan for Change, we will ensure 92% of patients return to waiting no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment by March 2029, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015.Thanks to funding announced in the Au...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Social Services: Exploitation
5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to establish a full investigation into exploitation within social care.
Memory Clinics: Waiting Lists
7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time from referral to diagnosis has been for people being referred to memory assessment services in the last five years.
Memory Clinics: Expenditure
7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual average integrated care board spend on memory assessment services has been for each year between 2014 and 2024.
Dementia: Diagnosis
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) pilot and (b) support the adoption of new diagnostic tools for dementia (i) including blood tests and (ii) generally.
Dementia: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) expand capacity in dementia diagnostics and (b) facilitate access to new dementia treatments when available.
Health: Screening
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS Health Check digitisation (a) reaches all communities equitably and (b) does not exacerbate health inequalities for dementia.
Dementia
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle dementia cases which could be (a) prevented and (b) delayed by addressing modifiable risk factors.
Alzheimer's Disease: Tomography
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of (a) CT and (b) MRI scans for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients treated in temporary care environments.
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of temporary care environments in patient care.
Medicine: Postgraduate Education
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review of postgraduate medical training will be carried out in full.
Community Health Services: Medical Equipment
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the recent National Living Wage increase and National Insurance Contributions rise on the financial viability of community equipme