Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 67702
Surgery: Waiting Lists
Tabled: 14 July 2025
Answered: 8 August 2025
Question
Alex Ballinger
Labour — Halesowen
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the implementation by some NHS Integrated Care Boards of minimum waiting times for elective treatment; and what assessm
Answer
Karin SmythThere is no formal policy supporting minimum waits in the National Health Service. However, the NHS Standard Contract technical guidance for 2025/26 states that commissioners may choose to include minimum waiting times in Activity Planning Assumptions to ...
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