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1716920

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made on reducing waiting lists for planned care in the North West.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	25547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Cutting waiting lists for elective care is one of this Prime Minister’s top priorities. The Delivery Plan for Tackling the COVID-19 Backlog of Elective Care outlines how the National Health Service will bring down waiting times across all elective services. To support this plan and tackle waiting lists the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to drive up and protect elective activity. We are making good progress on tackling the longest waits, to ensure patients get the care they need when they need it.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2022, the NHS successfully met the first target in our plan to virtually eliminate waits of over two years, excluding patients waiting by choice or due to complex specialties. The NHS then worked hard to deliver the next ambition to eliminate waits of 18 months or more. Thanks to the incredible work of NHS staff, NHS England's official statistics show that as of March 2024, we have virtually eliminated waits of over 18 months.</p><p> </p><p>Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times data is published monthly by NHS England:</p><p>https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 15/05/2024 15:41:06 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1701967

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect updated NHS wait times to be published for 2022 and 2023.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL3882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>NHS England publishes Referral to Treatment Waiting Times data for elective treatment monthly in an online-only format, including for 2022 and 2023. There are no plans to revise waiting times figures for these years.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 23/04/2024 11:39:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1694538

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of NHS funding to tackle the backlog of (a) elective surgeries and (b) other non-emergency procedures.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	17645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making the best possible progress against the ambitions set out in the Elective Recovery Plan (ERP), despite a range of constraints that have impacted on delivery. These constraints have included, but were not limited to, higher than expected COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related bed occupancy, and periods of disruptive industrial action.</p><p>The Government regularly reviews progress against the ambitions in the ERP, including affordability, and the impact of the constraints listed above. The Government is planning to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, to help drive up and protect elective activity.</p><p>This is supported by NHS England’s planning guidance, which in 2023/24 set an initial elective recovery target of 107%, delivered through a payment-by-result mechanism. To reflect the impact of industrial action, the Government and NHS England agreed to revise the elective activity target to 103% for the remainder of 2023/24, and in November 2023 provided an additional £800 million of funding from a combination of reprioritised and new funding, to mitigate the costs of industrial action. Planning guidance for 2024/25 will set out the ambitions for 2024/25, and will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 14/03/2024 14:08:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1690227

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why consultant-led community services activity is no longer to be recorded on the main elective waiting list.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>Most community activity is non-consultant led and therefore reported outside of the Referral to Treatment (RTT) dataset. There were inconsistencies in the previous reporting of consultant-led community services, so to improve consistency and accuracy of reporting across community services, the referral-to-treatment guidance has been updated to clarify the reporting expectations for consultant-led community data.</p><p>This change allows for consolidated reporting of consultant-led and non-consultant-led community services data within published community datasets. The aim is to encourage more consistent and accurate reporting across elective pathways, enabling better insights into community services and activity across the country. Patient rights to treatment within 18 weeks for consultant led services will not change under this proposal and long waits will still be visible within the published statistics; they will simply appear in the community data and not RTT.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/02/2024 14:15:02 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1686942

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 31 January (HL1876), stating that “If a patient dies whilst on an elective waiting list, the corresponding patient pathway should be removed from the list and recorded appropriately”, how many corresponding patient pathways entries have been removed from the records after the death of a patient.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL2149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2024 answer text <p>The data requested is recorded, however it is not reviewed routinely or centrally and is therefore subject to less validation than official statistics. Issues regarding the quality and completeness of this data mean it is not at an adequate level to inform a response.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 15/02/2024 16:31:48 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka

1684646

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how NHS England waiting lists for hospital appointments are adjusted to take account of people who have died while waiting for an appointment.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL1876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Cutting waiting lists is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities, and we are committed to ensuring patients get the care they need when they need it.</p><p>Providers should ensure that all patient pathways recorded relate to patients still in need of care, as part of their routine management of waiting lists. If a patient dies whilst on an elective waiting list, the corresponding patient pathway should be removed from the list and recorded appropriately.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 31/01/2024 14:30:21 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka

1660815

registered interest
date	14/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for NHS treatment in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	199631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>Reducing waiting times for National Health Service treatment in England, including in Liverpool, Walton constituency, is one of the Government’s top priorities.</p><p>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, engaging with patients to understand their choices, increasing activity through dedicated and protected surgical hubs and rolling out up to 160 Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) by March 2025. These include an established spoke CDC at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, to which general practices in Liverpool, Walton constituency can refer patients for key diagnostic checks, tests and scans.</p><p>The NHS is reducing long waits despite more people coming forward for treatment. Waits of 18 months or more have now been virtually eliminated (7,289 patients were waiting 18 months or more for treatment as of July 2023, a decrease of more than 94% from its peak in September 2021). We are taking action to bring down waits of over a year, including reducing the number of people requiring unnecessary follow-up appointments, to free up capacity.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/09/2023 09:46:54 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1657397

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients were waiting for NHS treatment as of 30 August; and what was the average waiting time for NHS treatment in August 2023.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	196997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The requested data for August 2023 has not yet been published. The most recent published data showed that the total waiting list for elective consultant-led treatment was 7.57 million in June 2023. For patients waiting to start treatment at the end of June 2023, the median waiting time was 14.3 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/09/2023 14:21:15 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1654128

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what effective measures they propose to take to cut the waiting time of patients waiting for NHS treatment, and in particular to address the number of patients waiting more than a year.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL9460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>Cutting waiting lists is one of the Government’s priorities. The Government has committed more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to drive up and protect elective activity. This is supported further by £5.9 billion investment in capital for new beds, equipment and technology.</p><p> </p><p>New and expanded surgical hubs are being rolled out to increase capacity and activity, focusing on providing high volume low complexity surgery, which is backed by £1.5 billion capital funding. There are currently 93 elective surgical hubs that are operational across England.</p><p>From October 2023, all patients waiting over 40 weeks where a decision to treat a patient has been made but the patient has not received a date for their treatment will be able to initiate a request to transfer to another provider and receive treatment more rapidly via the Patient Initiated Digital Mutual Aid System.</p><p>We have met our target to virtually eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022, and significantly reduced the number of patients waiting 18 months or more by April 2023 by over 91% from the peak in September 2021. We have now moved our focus to cutting waits of 65 weeks or more to as near zero as possible, by March 2024.</p><p>Capacity is being sought across the National Health Service and the independent sector locally, regionally and across the country to support efforts in hitting this target.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/07/2023 15:06:53 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1652772

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of industrial action on patient waiting lists.
tabling member constituency	North Somerset
tabling member printed	Dr Liam Fox
uin	193830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>Following any period of strike action, NHS England publish data on their website on the impact of industrial action. This sets out the number of staff absent as a result of industrial action, and the number of procedures and appointments rescheduled. The data do not include the impact on waiting lists. The data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/preparedness-for-potential-industrial-action-in-the-nhs/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/preparedness-for-potential-industrial-action-in-the-nhs/</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 193738 question first answered 19/07/2023 16:24:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	223 label Biography information for Sir Liam Fox