No 10 says it’s committed to cutting NHS waiting list, but cutting long waiting times takes priority
At the post-PMQs lobby briefing the PM’s spokesperson defended what Maria Caulfield, the health minister, said about NHS waiting lists and waiting times this morning. (See 9.15am.) Like her, he hinted that waiting times were more important than the overall number of people on the headline “waiting list”.
The spokesperson said that Rishi…