Question follow-through · 74352
General Practitioners: Dermatology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with devolved Administrations to help reduce waiting times from GP referral to first routine dermatology appointments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with devolved Administrations to help reduce waiting times from GP referral to first routine dermatology appointments.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
It is unacceptable that patients across the United Kingdom continue to wait lengthy periods for treatment. Although health is a devolved matter, bringing down the elective waiting lists, including for dermatology, is a top priority across the four nations...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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