PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(7 January 2026)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of people waiting for NHS treatment.
Asked by:
Andrew Lewin (Labour)
Asked by:
Andrew Lewin (Labour)
Answer
We know how important it is to patients and clinicians that they receive and deliver treatment faster.
Our Elective Reform Plan is working. Waiting lists are down over 225,000 since we came to office. We delivered 5.2 million extra appointments in our first year; double what we promised.
The NHS is on the road to recovery, saving and transforming more lives through record investment, innovation and modernisation.
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