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PM’s pledge to end NHS treatment backlog is big challenge, health leaders warn

The government’s renewed pledge to end the hospital treatment backlog in England by 2029 will require a “monumental increase in activity,” healthcare leaders have said.

In a speech setting out his government’s core objectives, Keir Starmer said that meeting the target for 92% of patients in England to wait no longer than 18 weeks for elective care was one of six “ambitious and credible” milestones to deliver by 2029.1 The pledge was first set out in Labour’s election manifesto earlier this year.2

Healthcare leaders welcomed the focus on the NHS as a priority but warned that meeting the target for the first time since 2016 would be a tall …

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