Question follow-through · 87115

NHS and Social Services: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS and care sector equipment is (a) returned and reused or (b) recycled after use.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 31 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 4 Nov 2025
Answer: 17 Nov 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS and care sector equipment is (a) returned and reused or (b) recycled after use.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
In October 2024 the Department published the Design for Life roadmap, a new strategy to transition away from all avoidable single-use medical technology (medtech) products towards a functioning circular system by 2045. This means designing, procuring, and...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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