Surgery: Waiting Lists
(asked on 16th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the national elective waiting list on 31 March in each year from 2011 to 2019.
The number of patients on the consultant-led Referral-to-treatment (RTT) waiting list at the end of March in each year from 2011 to 2019 is shown in the following table:
Year | Numbers waiting |
March 2011 | 2.46 million |
March 2012 | 2.41 million |
March 2013 | 2.66 million |
March 2014 | 2.91 million |
March 2015 | 3.01 million |
March 2016 | 3.50 million |
March 2017 | 3.73 million |
March 2018 | 3.85 million |
March 2019 | 4.23 million |
NHS England publishes performance data on a monthly basis, including the current waiting times for RTT as well as the size of the waiting list. This is available via the link in the following table:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/