NHS: Waiting Lists
(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to decrease waiting times for (a) A&E admissions, (b) routine operations and (c) cancer care.
Data is not available in the format requested. NHS England collects and publishes annual national level accident and emergency, referral-to-treatment and cancer waiting times performance data. The national performance for each financial year from 2009-10, where available, is shown in the table below:
Financial year | Accident and Emergency (95% standard) | Referral-to-Treatment (92% standard) | Cancer - 2 week (93% standard) | Cancer - 31 day (96% standard) | Cancer - 62 day (85% standard) |
2009-10 | N/A | N/A | 95.6% (Data collected from October 2009) | 98.4% (Data collected from October 2009) | 86.6% (Data collected from October 2009) |
2010-11 | 97.4% | N/A | 95.5% | 98.3% | 87.0% |
2011-12 | 96.6% | 91.3% | 95.9% | 98.4% | 87.2% |
2012-13 | 95.9% | 94.4% | 95.5% | 98.4% | 87.2% |
2013-14 | 95.7% | 94.1% | 95.3% | 98.2% | 85.9% |
2014-15 | 93.6% | 93.3% | 94.2% | 97.7% | 83.4% |
2015-16 | 91.9% | 92.5% | 94.2% | 97.6% | 82.4% |
2016-17 | 89.1% | 90.7% | 94.4% | 97.5% | 81.9% |
2017-18 | 88.3% | 89.1% | 94.1% | 97.5% | 82.2% |
Data is not collected by individual hospital site. Data as is available can be accessed via the following links:
Accident and Emergency (Data available from 2010-11):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
Referral-to-treatment (Data available from 2011-12):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/
Cancer (Data available from 2009-10):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/
The Long Term Plan, launched by the National Health Service on 7 January 2018, will transform patient care and make sure every penny of taxpayers’ money is spent wisely. This is supported by the Government’s investment of £20.5 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24. The additional funding will allow the NHS to get back on the path to delivering core performance standards. More than that, it will also drive the reforms that deliver a better and more sustainable NHS with improved care for patients.
In addition, NHS England’s ‘Operational and Planning Guidance for 2019/20’ sets out deliverables against key performance areas and the Government expects the NHS to deliver these actions set– in full – as key steps towards fully recovering performance against core access standards.
The Government has also supported the NHS with an additional £1.6 billion for 2018/19 to improve emergency and elective performance. In addition, more than £420 million has been provided specifically for this winter.