Keir Starmer: lifting on two million additional NHS deals met

Delivering another two million NHS operations, procedures and appointments per year in England was a central labor manifesto -promise -and was included in a list of six first steps it would take in office.

The extra agreements were partly delivered by extra evening and weekend work, the government said.

Optional care covers a wide range of planned, non-emergency situations, from diagnostic tests and scans to outpatient agreements, operations and cancer treatment.

There are 31.3 million operations, agreements and samples between July and November 2024 compared to 29.1 million in the same period in 2023, where there were over a dozen days with junior doctors.

The figures for the year until July 2025, one year from the election, will be closely examined to see if this trend and the promise have been carried out.

The government said the NHS England data showed that the manifestation had been fulfilled seven months early.

Sir Keir said the government was “not complacent” and knows that “the job has not been done” when he promised further reforms to deliver faster treatment.

He revealed plans in January to tackle the NHS backlog, which is one of the government’s most important missions.

The government has announced an extra 40 million. £ in financing for Trusts, which makes the biggest improvements in cutting event lists, with the money available to hospitals from next year to spend on capital projects.