Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30813

Surgery and Tomography: Waiting Lists

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 24 February 2025

Question

Tony Vaughan

LabourFolkestone and Hythe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce waiting lists for NHS (a) surgeries and (b) scans.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Additional funding of £1.8 billion was announced as part of the October 2024 budget to directly support elective recovery and activity in 2024/25. This funding will support the National Health Service to deliver an additional two million operations, scans...

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