HC Deb 25 June 1990 vol 175 c87W
Miss Hoey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the function of waiting list funds and initiatives.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The waiting list initiative and waiting list fund provides targeted resources to enable health authorities to treat additional patients from the waiting list, and to reduce the number of patients who wait excessively long times. I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. King) on 18 January 1990 at columns403–4.

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