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Health Services: Waiting Lists

Commons · Question 33275 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 18 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of what the NHS waiting list will be in (a) 12 months, (b) two years, (c) three years and (d) by the end of the Parliament.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 18 Mar 2025

Projected estimates of National Health Service waiting list size are currently being refined. We have delivered a reduction in the list of 160,000 pathways, as well as provision of over two million extra appointments between July and November 2024 compare...