Surgery: Waiting Lists
(asked on 12th June 2018) - 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 2018 inclusive.
NHS England publishes monthly data on Consultant-led Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times. This includes the volume of patients on the national elective waiting list. The following table shows the information requested as at the end of March in each year.
Month | Total waiting (million) |
March 2011 | 2,455,424 |
March 2012 | 2,413,969 |
March 2013 | 2,661,165 |
March 2014 | 2,911,442 |
March 2015 | 3,006,877 |
March 2016 | 3,504,595 |
March 2017 | 3,734,833 |
March 2018 | 3,843,182 |
Source: published NHS England statistics - Unify2 data collection – RTT
Comparing 2010-11 to 2016-17, the number of operations performed increased by 1.8 million (latest Hospital Episode Statistics data available is 2016-17).