Hospitals: Waiting Lists

(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of whether there is a differential in waiting times for hospital services provided by hospital trusts in England for residents of (a) Wales and (b) England; and what guidance he has issued to such trusts on that matter.


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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 14th September 2015

No such assessment has been made, though a number of studies that include a comparison of elective waits between England and Wales have been published, including that by the Nuffield Trust.

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