Hospitals: Waiting Lists

(asked on 14th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to support hospital trusts with significant waiting lists to (a) share and (b) implement best practices in (i) England and (ii) Slough constituency.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th March 2024

The National Health Service and the Department are aiming to transform elective care across England. This includes providing additional regional or national support and intervention to the most challenged trusts. We are driving activity by using wider system capacity, through use of the independent sector, mutual aid, offering patients a choice at the point of referral, and expanding and protecting elective planned diagnostic services through community diagnostic centres (CDC). In January 2024, a new CDC opened in Slough delivering additional checks, tests, and scans as mobile activity. To help manage the demand, the NHS is providing ongoing rigorous delivery monitoring, sharing best practice approaches between trusts, providing specialised advice in primary care, and driving productivity through pilot schemes and a new network of surgical hubs.

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