Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to (a) secure appointments and (b) provide additional support in other ways to the 111 patients in Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust areas whose referrals were missed off waiting lists in 2016.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust are working closely with their local commissioners and general practitioners to ensure patients who have been referred are included on their waiting lists. They are taking a number of measures including carrying out reviews and checks of all their waiting lists to ensure every patient has been captured.