Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to para 122 of the report entitled Expert Panel: evaluation of Government’s commitments in the area of the health and social care workforce: Government Response, published 21 April 2023, if he will publish the methodology and analysis used for regression modelling.

The Government aims to publish the report, including the methodology and analysis used for regression modelling, in a peer reviewed journal. However, the process of peer reviewing often results in changes to the methodology.

The elective recovery of acute National Health Service trusts in England were examined between January 2021 and January 2022 to understand what the drivers of elective recovery are and explore how COVID-19 pressures, other emergency demands, staffing levels and other hospital and patient factors affect providers’ ability to recover back to pre-pandemic levels.