Question follow-through · 13937
Anaesthetics: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of anaesthetic workforce shortages on the NHS’s ability to tackle the elective backlog.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of anaesthetic workforce shortages on the NHS’s ability to tackle the elective backlog.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2024
Answer published
Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission. We have committed to getting back to the NHS Constitutional standard that at least 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from Referral to Treatment within our first term. As a first step t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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