Earwax: Medical Treatments

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including ear wax removal on the NHS for patients with a) severe build up of wax and b) those that wear hearing aids and struggle to remove the wax themselves.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 3rd September 2026

I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided to the Hon Member for Stockton West on 5 February 2026 to Question 109250.

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