Question follow-through · 63886
Health Services: Waste Management
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waste in the NHS.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 8 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
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waste in the NHS.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
There are a range of initiatives in the National Health Service to tackle waste, ranging from locally managed walking aid refurbishment schemes to innovative projects on the reuse of surgical textiles. NHS England has also been working to reduce the wasta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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