waiting time targets
Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets
The NHS has been given conflicting waiting times targets this year. There is a solution, and it lies mainly in PCT Clusters' hands.
waiting time targets
Making the case for a one-year limit on waiting times
Rob Findlay and Anthony McKeever make the case for NHS trusts guaranteeing a one-year limit on referral to treatment waiting times.
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Managing split referral-to-treatment pathways
If your 18 week pathway splits, so that some patients have a diagnostic stage and some don't, then how do you manage waiting times? And... Watch the video
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Many measures of waiting times
Bewildered by the vast pick-and-mix of different waiting time measures? Here's a fact checker that has them all.
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Many ways to breach 18 weeks
Why do hospitals breach the 18-week target? A tour of the numbers reveals a bewildering variety of reasons.
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Map of 18-week hotspots
Maps of England, showing the 18-week hotspots for each major specialty.
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More and better analysis of local ’18 weeks’ pressures
We are launching better analyses of your local 18 weeks pressures, to take advantage of new data, improve the analysis of medical specialties, and allow... Watch the video
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More waiting list patients frozen in time
There is something strange about the Orthopaedic waiting list in Salisbury.
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New record best for one-year-waiters (now let’s go for zero)
A fantastic result on one-year waiters: come on, let's get them down to zero. Otherwise, everything on waiting times is pretty much treading water.
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New target, new perversity
The new RTT waiting times target is very welcome, but it brings new dangers of its own: distortion of clinical priorities, and hidden waiting lists.