Question follow-through · 3922
Orthopaedics: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle elective care waiting times, including joint replacement surgery, in Eastleigh constituency; what assessment his Department has made of the likelihood of the traum
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle elective care waiting times, including joint replacement surgery, in Eastleigh constituency; what assessment his Department has made of the likelihood of the traum
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
We are committed to returning by March 2029 to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment, across all specialties, including trauma and orthopaedics. In M...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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