Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 44112

Hospitals: Waiting Lists

Tabled: 3 April 2025
Answered: 17 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal Democrat — North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has issued guidance to hospital trusts on reducing waiting lists for elective care through demand management.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government has committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015. Our Electiv...
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