24
Accepted
Access to care should not be dependent on where you live in the country.
Recommendation
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.
Government Response Summary
The government states the Elective Recovery Taskforce is already working to adopt innovative solutions and foster collaboration across the country to ensure equitable access to care and prevent increased health inequalities from backlog strategies.
Paragraph Reference
105
Government Response
Accepted
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
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.
Source
Committee
Health and Social Care Committee
Report
Ninth report - Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic
06 Jan 2022
HC 599
Addressee Bodies
Department of Health and Social Care
Timeline
Recommendation age
4.6 yrs
Report published
06 Jan 2022