questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has issued guidance to hospital trusts on reducing waiting lists for elective care through demand management.
answerText: The Government has committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015. Our Electiv...
heading: Hospitals: Waiting Lists