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Wait list grows for first time in seven months
Seasonal growth has overwhelmed the recent sluggish improvements
Wait list falls for sixth consecutive month, but too slowly
This run of good news is probably coming to an end
Wait list reduction remains sluggish
The waiting list is shrinking, but not fast enough.
Elective reform still stalled in December
The waiting list needs to be shrinking about ten times faster
Elective recovery loses more momentum
But the new style of waiting time target can be used to reverse the decline
Accelerating elective recovery takes a pause
The rate of waiting list reduction has paused far short of the required million per year
Elective recovery gets underway
The pace will need to be even higher in 2025-26
Year-on-year wait list reduction accelerates
But it needs to shrink by nearly a million a year to restore 18 week waits
Wait list falls year-on-year for first time since pandemic
But it needs to fall a lot faster to recover '18 weeks'
Labour’s inheritance on RTT waiting times
At the end of the last government, waiting times were bad but no longer getting worse