Question follow-through · 42371
Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time taken to diagnose multiple sclerosis was in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time taken to diagnose multiple sclerosis was in each of the last five years.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
We do not hold data in the format requested. The latest data for referral to treatment waiting times in England, from January 2025, shows there were under 233,000 pathways waiting for a neurology appointment, 53.8% of which had been waiting less that 18 w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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