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<p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for elective child health
services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. To support elective recovery,
the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help
drive up and protect elective activity. Steps taken include increasing capacity, seeking
alternative capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients
to understand their choices.</p><p>We met our target to virtually eliminate long waits
of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022. We also virtually eliminated
waits of over 18 months by the end of June 2023, a reduction of over 94% from the
peak of 125,000 in September 2021. Our next ambition is to eliminate waits of 65 and
52 weeks.</p>
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