Health Services: Waiting Lists
(asked on 7th January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of people waiting for NHS treatment.
This question was answered on 13th January 2026
We know how important it is to patients and clinicians that they receive and deliver treatment faster.
Our Elective Reform Plan is working. Waiting lists are down over 225,000 since we came to office. We delivered 5.2 million extra appointments in our first year; double what we promised.
The NHS is on the road to recovery, saving and transforming more lives through record investment, innovation and modernisation.