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I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 April to Question 239987<\/a>.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1585", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Hammond"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wimbledon"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Stephen Hammond"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-04-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-04-16T14:44:20.787Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-04-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Operating Theatres"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce delays and (b) increase efficiency in operating theatres.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Strangford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jim Shannon"} ], "uin" : "242839"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1109267", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1109267/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

NHS Improvement has an ongoing programme to help trusts reduce their waiting times for patients by making better use of their theatre time. This has been supported by their theatre productivity report \u2018Operating theatres: opportunities to reduce waiting lists\u2019 which includes insights to support clinicians, managers and hospital leaders to further challenge themselves to improve how care is delivered and how valuable theatre resources and clinical expertise can be best used. NHS Improvement is taking steps to help trusts meet the challenges outlined in the report, including:<\/p>

- Running workshops in the five English National Health Service regions so that trusts can learn from those that have made productivity and capacity gains through structured improvement work;<\/p>

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- Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is supporting trusts to deliver quality and productivity improvements for patients in many surgical specialties; and<\/p>

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- NHS Improvement\u2019s regional teams are supporting trusts with theatre improvement work, using the insights from our analysis and drawing on expert advice from the GIRFT programme.<\/p>

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\u2018Operating theatres: opportunities to reduce waiting lists\u2019 is available via the following link:<\/p>

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