Waiting list would need to shrink to 2015 levels, to re-achieve 18 week waits
Four years of waiting list growth would need to be undone to achieve the NHS Constitution standard again.
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Annual planning with Gooroo Planner
There's some pretty heavy number-crunching in the annual planning process. With fast, comprehensive planning, built-in collaboration, and expert support, Gooroo Planner is ideal for the task.
It’s a bad autumn for the waiting list as admissions falter
When the NHS keeps up with demand, the waiting list shrinks in the autumn. It isn't shrinking.
Managing to the RTT target
A deeper dive into the incentives created by various elective waiting time targets, compared with patient-centred booking.
A target 8.5 week average RTT wait?
Will one kind of "managing to the target" simply be replaced by another?
Gooroo Planner upgrade: tactical activity planning for operational managers
Now you can edit week-by-week activity directly in the Profiling screen, and watch waiting times rise and fall as you work. This and other goodies in the latest upgrade.
RCEM: Bed occupancy – time for a new message
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) kindly invited me to speak at their Policy Forum. My case was not so much that 85% is the wrong answer, but that bed occupancy is the wrong question.
Biggest ever waiting list as general election looms
The best way for the next government to reduce waiting times will be steadily and patiently, by keeping up with demand. Not with a blitz of waiting list initiatives.
RTT waits at 24 weeks as long waits deteriorate sharply
August saw a sudden increase in elective waiting times, putting at risk the NHS Long Term Plan's promise of choice at six months.
Majority of local services are now breaching 18 weeks
At the end of July, less than 49 per cent of hospital services were achieving the 18 week RTT target.