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Waiting times steady despite slowdown in admissions

Yet another large trust stopped reporting its referral-to-treatment data, which clouded the picture for the latest November figures and raised non-reported waiting lists to a... Watch the video

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Waiting times steady in September

The position on English waiting times remained steady in September. But nearly half the country's one-year-waiters were reported at just one hospital.

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Waiting times top 20 weeks – and will probably stay there

The winter lull kept English waiting times below 20 weeks for the last few months, but now they're back. This time it's probably permanent.

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Waiting times will probably top 52 weeks by March

Waiting times would have to grow a lot slower than they did over the summer, to avoid an England-wide breach of 52 weeks by the... Watch the video

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Waiting times worsen again in Scotland

Scotland's outpatient waiting list is building up quite a backlog. The longer it's left, the harder it will be to fix.

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Waits drift upwards as lack of focus continues

Waiting times are creeping up as waiting list management processes wither

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Waits for diagnosis and decision rise to 38.6 weeks

Many urgent conditions are only picked up at diagnosis, making such long waits risky

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Waits improve in England as ‘managed breach’ continues illicitly

The English NHS carried on treating long-waiters in April as if the 'managed breach' had never come to an end, scoring a significant improvement in... Watch the video

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Winter hits elective waiting times

RTT waiting times shot up in December as winter started to bite. In better news, one year waits continued to fall.

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Worst ever breach of England’s 18-weeks target

It was another bad month for England's 18 week waiting times - the worst performance since the "incomplete pathways" target was introduced in 2012, powered... Watch the video