Luke Evans: Patients deserve answers to vanishing NHS waiting lists
Dr Luke Evans MP is shadow minister for health and social care The Government has spent months celebrating progress on NHS waiting lists, but beneath the headlines remain questions ministers still cannot answer. In March alone, more than 350,000 patients were removed from NHS waiting lists without receiving treatment. To put that into perspective, that is roughly the population of Coventry disappearing from the waiting list in a single month.
- ▪Dr Luke Evans MP is shadow minister for health and social care The Government has spent months celebrating progress on NHS waiting lists, but beneath the headlines remain questions ministers still cannot answer.
- ▪In March alone, more than 350,000 patients were removed from NHS waiting lists without receiving treatment.
- ▪To put that into perspective, that is roughly the population of Coventry disappearing from the waiting list in a single month.
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Dr Luke Evans MP is shadow minister for health and social care The Government has spent months celebrating progress on NHS waiting lists, but beneath the headlines remain questions ministers still cannot answer. In March alone, more than 350,000 patients were removed from NHS waiting lists without receiving treatment. To put that into perspective, that is roughly the population of Coventry disappearing from the waiting list in a single month. Nobody disputes that waiting lists should be validated. They should be. Patients who no longer require treatment, have moved away, sought treatment elsewhere or appear more than once on the system should not remain on NHS waiting lists indefinitely. That is not the issue. The issue is why the number of patients being removed suddenly surged.
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