questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Elective Recovery Plan, what progress his Department has made on the 18-week referral-to-treatment targets.
answerText: As set out in the Plan for Change and the Elective Reform Plan, we are committed to returning by March 2029 to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment....
heading: Surgery: Waiting Lists