Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 42367
NHS: Private Sector
Tabled: 28 March 2025
Answered: 4 April 2025
Question
Steve Darling
Liberal Democrat — Torbay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that the private sector is used to help reduce NHS waiting lists for the (a) most urgent procedures and (b) patients with the greatest clinical need
Answer
Karin SmythWe have committed to tackling waiting lists and getting back to the National Health Service constitutional standard, that 92% of patients should wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment, by March 2029. We will use every lever to do this, an...
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