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Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the compatibility of minimum waiting time policies with the NHS Constitution for England, including patients’ rights to access services within maximum wai

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 10 Jun 2026
Answer: 22 Jun 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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4 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the compatibility of minimum waiting time policies with the NHS Constitution for England, including patients’ rights to access services within maximum wai
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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22 Jun 2026
Answer published
There is no formal national policy supporting minimum waits in the National Health Service. However, the NHS Standard Contract allows local commissioners to set activity planning assumptions to plan demand, capacity, and expenditure.It is important to not...

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