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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- 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
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Recorded timeline
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.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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