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Health Services: Waste Management

Commons · Question 63886 · Tabled 30 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 8 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waste in the NHS.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 8 Jul 2025

There are a range of initiatives in the National Health Service to tackle waste, ranging from locally managed walking aid refurbishment schemes to innovative projects on the reuse of surgical textiles. NHS England has also been working to reduce the wasta...