Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 56297

Health Services: Waiting Lists

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 12 June 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Department for Health and Social Care's press release entitled Crack teams get patients off waiting lists at twice the speed, published on 16 March 2025, what estimate he has

Answer

Karin Smyth
No formal estimate has been made of the associated impact of the reduction in waiting lists on employment. The Further Faster 20 (FF20) programme continues to support trusts within the cohort to reduce their waiting lists, helping people to return to work...

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