Question follow-through · 44112
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has issued guidance to hospital trusts on reducing waiting lists for elective care through demand management.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 17 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has issued guidance to hospital trusts on reducing waiting lists for elective care through demand management.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government has committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015. Our Electiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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