NHS: Private Sector
Commons · Question 42367 · Tabled 28 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Steve Darling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that the private sector is used to help reduce NHS waiting lists for the (a) most urgent procedures and (b) patients with the greatest clinical need
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 4 Apr 2025
We have committed to tackling waiting lists and getting back to the National Health Service constitutional standard, that 92% of patients should wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment, by March 2029. We will use every lever to do this, an...