Continuing Care: Waiting Lists
Commons · Question 13791 · Tabled 12 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of waiting times for accessing services through the NHS Continuing healthcare programme on patient outcomes; what assessment he has made of the
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 20 Nov 2024
Corrected 5 Dec 2024 by Stephen Kinnock
Statutory guidance and assurance regimes are in place so that people are assessed and receive care in a timely way. For example, NHS England’s assurance standard requires that integrated care boards (ICBs) must ensure that in more than 80% of cases procee...