Written question asked by Mary Kelly Foy (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 February 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 29 February 2024 (named day). It was answered by Andrew Stephenson (Conservative) on Thursday, 29 February 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Hysterectomy: Waiting Lists
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for a hysterectomy in (a) County Durham and (b) England.
- Answer
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The Delivery Plan for Tackling the COVID-19 Backlog of Elective Care outlines how the National Health Service will bring down waiting times across all elective services. The plan does not prioritise specialties or certain interventions, but the NHS continues to focus on reducing the longest waiting times and providing high levels of support and scrutiny, targeted at the trusts which have the highest number of patients waiting the longest time, for elective treatment.
To support this plan and tackle waiting lists, including those in gynaecology, the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to drive up and protect elective activity. We are also increasing capacity, including for gynaecological surgery, through our surgical hubs, delivered by the Getting It Right First Time’s High Volume Low Complexity programme.
Secondary information
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- 15190
- Session
- 2023-24
- Subjects
- Waiting lists Hysterectomy
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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