Question follow-through · 2858
Surgery: Hygiene
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on patients and NHS waiting lists of surgical operations being cancelled due to contaminated or defective sterile surgical instrument components;
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 13 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
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on patients and NHS waiting lists of surgical operations being cancelled due to contaminated or defective sterile surgical instrument components;
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
No specific assessment has been made of the impact of cancelled operations due to contaminated or defective sterile surgical instrument components on National Health Service elective waiting lists. Quarterly cancelled elective operation statistics for non...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Written question 30095
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of the potential merits of increasing government funding for hospices.
Written question 30096
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of the potential merits of increasing the accessibility of palliative care.