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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Let private and third sectors cut NHS waiting lists, says Steve Barclay

Steve Barclay
Steve Barclay’s ‘elective recovery taskforce’ is looking into how to bring down post-Covid waiting times. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

More private and third sector providers should be used by the NHS to help cut post-Covid waiting lists, Steve Barclay, the health secretary, will say after a review of capacity in the health service.

Barclay will draw on the work of his “elective recovery taskforce” – a group convened by ministers to look at how to bring down waiting times.

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