Going swimmingly or treading water: is the elective recovery plan bringing down NHS waiting lists?

Going swimmingly or treading water: is the elective recovery plan bringing down NHS waiting lists? The NHS Elective recovery plan (ERP), launched in February 2022, is intended to make a major contribution to reducing waiting lists. This paper sets out: how the national waiting list has changed over the year and the impact of the ERP; inequalities in the waiting list by speciality and geography and how the ERP has so far impacted regions differently; and LCP’s projections past and future – how their previous projections compare to 2022’s waiting list and what their projections are to 2027 in light of over a years’ worth of new data being available. Lane Clark & Peacock LLP