Medical Treatments: Waiting Lists

(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of NHS England’s endoscopy services at (a) reducing waiting times and (b) increasing diagnostic treatments.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 11th July 2023

£2.3 billion was awarded at Spending Review 2021 to transform diagnostic services over the next three years, including endoscopy services. Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst integrated care systems (ICSs), where priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.

The integrated care board is ultimately responsible for planning and reviewing healthcare services in line with the needs of its population. Delivery plans for endoscopy services are owned by the sponsoring NHS trust and ICS and assured by the NHS England regional leads.

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