questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for which procedures, treatments or clinical pathways minimum waiting times have been applied by Integrated Care Boards; and what criteria are used to determine their application.
answerText: There is no formal national policy supporting minimum waits in the National Health Service. However, the NHS Standard Contract allows local commissioners to set activity planning assumptions to plan demand, capacity, and expenditure.It is important to not...
heading: Health Services: Standards