Question follow-through · 50979
Health Services: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for an able-bodied patient to access an NHS appointment in (a) Stockport Borough and (b) Greater Manchester in the latest period for which data is available.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for an able-bodied patient to access an NHS appointment in (a) Stockport Borough and (b) Greater Manchester in the latest period for which data is available.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
Cutting waiting lists is a key priority for the Government. We promised change, and we have delivered early, with a reduction in the list of over 219,000 pathways from July 2024 to February 2025.We do not hold data on the average waiting time for able-bod...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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