Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80507
Paediatrics: Blood Tests
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 15 October 2025
Named DayQuestion
Alex Brewer
Liberal Democrat — North East Hampshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce wait times and (b) increase capacity for paediatric blood tests.
Answer
Karin SmythWe inherited a broken National Health Service, and reducing elective waiting lists is a key part of getting it back on its feet and building an NHS that is fit for the future. To that end we have committed to achieving the NHS constitutional standard that...
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