Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 99118

Health Services: Waiting Lists

Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025

Question

Sarah Pochin

Reform UKRuncorn and Helsby

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of patients currently in (a) pre listing triage and (b) referral assessment stages for consultant led elective care pathways.

Answer

Karin Smyth
For referral to treatment (RTT) pathways that start within an interface service, which is any form of intermediary clinical triage, assessment, and/or treatment between primary and secondary care, a patient's clock start will begin at the point the genera...

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