Health Services: Standards

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support the Government plans to provide to assist NHS trusts in England to reduce waiting times for urgent appointments.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 23rd February 2022

On 8 February 2022, the Department published the ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’, which sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years.

To reduce delays and waiting times, we have committed more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, supported by a £5.9 billion capital investment for new beds, equipment and technology. This is in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available to systems this year to increase elective activity.

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