Question follow-through · 38296

Earwax: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support ICBs to offer community wax removal services to people requiring them.

answeredDr Ellie ChownsDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
17 Mar 2025
Answer
26 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support ICBs to offer community wax removal services to people requiring them.

  2. 17 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Department does not have plans to intervene in locally led arrangements for the provision of ear wax removal services. Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning ear wax removal services in local areas in line with the recommendations fo...

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