Organs: Donors
Commons · Question 23467 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Navendu Mishra
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the length of waiting lists for a lifesaving organ in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) England.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 20 Jan 2025
The Elective Reform Plan, published in early January, sets out a whole system approach to hitting the 18-week referral to treatment target, in order to tackle the approximate 6.3 million patients on the waiting list. As of 31 December 2024, there were 6,8...