Oral Question·Department of Health and Social Care
“What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of patient waiting times.”
Tabled: 9 October 2024Answered: 15 October 2024
Asked by
Karl Turner
Independent — Kingston upon Hull East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Wes Streeting)
Waiting times are wholly inadequate in our country. That is because the previous Conservative Government took a golden inheritance of the shortest waiting times and the highest patient satisfaction in history and left behind the worst crisis in the NHS’s history. What is more, they accept no responsibility and cannot even bring themselves to say sorry.