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The English waiting list: not growing after all?

After adjusting for counting changes, it turns out the English waiting list might not be growing after all.

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The state of RTT waiting times before covid-19

February’s data on referral-to-treatment (RTT) waiting times is the last before elective activity was largely shut down, as part of the colossal effort to free... Watch the video

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The waiting list grows, but 18 week waits improve

A narrow record-best on 18 weeks, slippage on one-year-waits, and a further worrying increase in the number waiting.

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Thousands of patients waiting over two years as list tops five million

The post covid recovery continues, and waiting time pressures are building.

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Ultra long waiting times show the pressure in the NHS

Ultra long waits will be difficult to solve until the NHS can keep up with demand.

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Underlying pressure still rising on elective waiting times

Although headline waiting times fell slightly, both the waiting list and the wait to diagnosis went up

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Wait list (probably) flatlines as community services disappear from data

About 40,000 patient pathways have disappeared. But on the plus side, a new and better data series has begun.

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Wait list and longest waits all worsen in last figures before election

The waiting list has grown since Rishi Sunak pledged it would fall, but his promise people would get care quicker has come true

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Wait list and wait times worsened again in May

A worsening situation in the penultimate waiting times data from the last Conservative government

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Wait list falls year-on-year for first time since pandemic

But it needs to fall a lot faster to recover '18 weeks'