Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 24
24
Paragraph: 105
Access to care should not be dependent on where you live in the country.
Conclusion
Access to care should not be dependent on where you live in the country. Regional and national co-ordination will be necessary to ensure that strategies aimed at tackling the backlog do not have the unintended consequence of increasing health inequalities.
Paragraph Reference:
105
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Elective Recovery Taskforce is working to ensure that innovative solutions to tackling the backlog are adopted across the country to ensure that access to care is not dependent on where you live. This includes supporting collaboration between systems and providers to ensure that capacity is used most effectively and that patients are offered the opportunity to travel to a different hospital where they can be seen sooner.