Question follow-through · 56297

Health Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Department for Health and Social Care's press release entitled Crack teams get patients off waiting lists at twice the speed, published on 16 March 2025, what estimate he has

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
4 Jun 2025
Answer
12 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Department for Health and Social Care's press release entitled Crack teams get patients off waiting lists at twice the speed, published on 16 March 2025, what estimate he has

  2. 4 Jun 2025

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  3. 12 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    No formal estimate has been made of the associated impact of the reduction in waiting lists on employment. The Further Faster 20 (FF20) programme continues to support trusts within the cohort to reduce their waiting lists, helping people to return to work...

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