Question
Lord Luce
Crossbench
Life peer
Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time for patients to see a NHS physiotherapist.
Answered on
7 January 2020
Physiotherapy services are commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups. This includes agreeing and monitoring the waiting time to access services rather than this being set nationally.
A count of first outpatient attendances and the average (mean and median) waiting time in days, where the treatment specialty is physiotherapy, is shown in the following table. Data is for the 2018-19 financial year.
Year | First attendances | Mean waiting time (days) | Median waiting time (days) |
2018-19 | 1,404,639 | 36.7 | 25 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (NHS Digital)
Answered by
Department of Health and Social Care