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Health Services: Waiting Lists

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 17 July 2026UIN 13650

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the reduction in waiting lists since July 2024 has been as a result of patients receiving treatment.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Department publishes data on Referral to Treatment waiting times. The majority of patients in this data set are considered as having received 'treatment'. A proportion of the removals from the waiting list which appear in this data set as unreported removals, a category which can occur for a variety of data quality and technical reasons, will have been removed for administrative reasons, for example, where a duplicate record was identified. The data is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/

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