questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase the use of capacity in local private hospitals to reduce NHS waiting times for surgical procedures.
answerText: As set out in the Plan for Change, we have committed to return to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment by March 2029.Independent sector providers have a role to pl...
heading: Surgery: Waiting Lists