Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that joint replacement surgeries are prioritised in the NHS.
The Department is taking steps to ensure the National Health Service can treat patients safely as quickly as possible. Joint replacement is being prioritised through the High Volume, Low Complexity programme and the Getting It Right First Time programme. These programmes will provide best practice examples to help improve and joint replacement surgeries across the NHS.