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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has set targets for reducing waiting lists by aligning them with (a) workforce growth and (b) deployment metrics.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has set targets for reducing waiting lists by aligning them with (a) workforce growth and (b) deployment metrics.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
As set out in the Plan for Change, we will ensure that 92% of patients return to waiting no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment by March 2029, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015. NHS England published its plann...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) general practitioners and (b) hospital doctors receive training on (i) Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and (ii) other rare conditions.
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