Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 70640

Health Services

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

James Cartlidge

Conservative — South Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle regional differences in access to specialist care.

Answer

Karin Smyth
We are committed to returning to the NHS constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment by March 2029. Our ‘Reforming elective care for patients’ plan, published in January, sets out how...
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