Written questions

Health Services: Standards

2026-06-05 · Department of Health and Social Care · 7231 · Official question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts met the referral-to-treatment standard in each month since July 2024.

Answer

Our Elective Reform Plan, published in January 2025, set out the ambition to meet the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients should wait no longer than 18 weeks from Referral to Treatment (RTT) by March 2029. A number of NHS ...