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Is your bed flow designed to deliver regular crises? Is theatre performance stable? Control charts analyse your bed, theatre and clinic capacity for different days of the week, so that you can tell what was expected performance and what was unusual.
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.
Elective waiting times are still shooting up in Scotland. And I reckon they're a good deal longer than in England.
The 14-day and 31-day cancer targets suggest that cancer waits can be managed like other elective waiting lists. But the complexity of cancer pathways suggests that a different approach is needed.
Our old server was over 3 years old, so we decided it was time to replace it. And the new one is a lot beefier.
The English waiting list managed to stay inside 4 million, in the last figures to be published before the general election. It won't last.
There is suspicion that some hospitals might have deliberately delayed waiting list validation in order to game the 18 week target. But the evidence suggests that late validation (for any reason) is not widespread, and therefore deliberate late validation must be even rarer.
Letting the waiting list grow is like borrowing from a loan shark: a bit of short term relief, followed by years of risk and expense. Something for the next government to bear in mind.
Which waiting times target had its financial penalties scrapped in the last month? Which were scrapped but then reinstated? Which were beefed up? And which might change yet again?
Referral-to-treatment waiting times were largely unchanged in February - the last full month when most trusts felt subject to financial penalties for this NHS Constitution standard.