Question follow-through · 82124
Hospitals: Private Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of private healthcare providers using NHS hospital facilities on NHS waiting lists.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- NHS: Pay · 21 Oct 2025
- Coronavirus: Vaccination · 23 Oct 2025
- Health Services: Dementia and Older People · 3 Nov 2025
- Coronavirus: Vaccination · 15 Dec 2025
- Coronavirus: Vaccination · 15 Dec 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of private healthcare providers using NHS hospital facilities on NHS waiting lists.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
No specific assessment has been made as these decisions are taken locally. National Health Service trusts can utilise ‘insourcers’, private healthcare providers who operate using NHS facilities, but services must be arranged in a manner which offers value...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Mental Health Services: Fathers
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28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve access to NHS dental services.