Physiotherapy
(asked on 19th December 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the target waiting time for an appointment with an NHS physiotherapist.
Physiotherapy services are commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups. This includes agreeing and monitoring the waiting time to access services rather than this being set nationally.
A count of first outpatient attendances and the average (mean and median) waiting time in days, where the treatment specialty is physiotherapy, is shown in the following table. Data is for the 2018-19 financial year.
Year | First attendances | Mean waiting time (days) | Median waiting time (days) |
2018-19 | 1,404,639 | 36.7 | 25 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (NHS Digital)