Question follow-through · 40030
Hip Replacements: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a hip replacement.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 6 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
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a hip replacement.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
People have been waiting too long for National Health Service treatment, with their personal and professional lives put on hold. This is why we have committed to getting back to the NHS constitutional standard, that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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