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Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients referred for a potential diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease are seen by a neurologist within 18 weeks.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
1 May 2025
Target answer date
8 May 2025
Answer
8 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients referred for a potential diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease are seen by a neurologist within 18 weeks.

  2. 8 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to delivering the National Health Service constitutional standard for 92% of patients to wait no longer than 18 weeks from Referral to Treatment by March 2029, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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