Rishi Sunak says the government is “cutting waiting lists” in the NHS. Some specific waiting lists, such as patients waiting more than 18 months, have fallen. But the overall waiting list for consultant-led treatment in England is at a record high.
The NHS records waiting list data in lots of different ways, and it is true that some specific waiting lists, such as the list of patients waiting more than 18 months for treatment, have shortened in recent months.
However, it is not true that the overall size of the most commonly cited NHS waiting list is falling.at the time of Mr Sunak’s tweet showed that the number of cases waiting for NHS consultant-led treatment in England reached a record high of 7.33 million at the end of March 2023. , Mr Sunak acknowledged that the overall size of the waiting list may not start to fall until next year when he said it “should be coming down” by spring 2024.
Full Fact asked Downing Street and the Conservative Party about the evidence for Mr Sunak’s claim and did not receive a response. The Department of Health and Social Care did not offer a full explanation for the claim either, but it has confirmed the overall size of the NHS waiting list continues to rise, and says there has been some success in tackling the list of patients who have been waiting longest., where one line says: “We’ve cut 18 month waiting lists by over 90% since September 2021.
Politicians must be clear what they mean when making claims using official data to describe public services. Otherwise they risk misleading people about the government’s performance—or, in this case, access to the NHS. Health policy is devolved, so this article only looks at waiting lists in England, which is the part of the UK health system that the UK government controls.What are the waiting lists?
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