Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his department has made of trends in the levels of variation in integrated care systems in access to prolonged ambulatory ECG monitoring.

No specific assessment has been made by the Department and data on the provision of prolonged ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring is not collected centrally.

It is for local National Health Service commissioners to work with providers and other stakeholders to take decisions on the provision of services locally in the best interests of their populations.

The Government is committed to reducing waiting times for services including for diagnostic services.