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Officially, England only just missed the 18 week target. Unofficially things were much worse because of non-reporting Trusts. What is most worrying is that the waiting list has grown by over 12 per cent year on year.
Keeping waiting times close to the brink is a false economy. Make headroom once, and you can run the hospital more cheaply forever.
The old, centralised, annualised approach to planning and performance management is fading. In its place is emerging something much more adaptable, much more granular, and much more useful.
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England officially breached the 18 week target at national level in December 2015, after unofficially breaching it since October. The cause: long term rapid growth in the size of the waiting list.
No, annual planning is not dead yet. But it could become simply a by-product of genuine operational planning.
The 18 week target was narrowly breached again in November, if you adjust for non-reporting Trusts.
Whose fault is it that the NHS isn't delivering enough activity to keep up with demand? And what is "enough", anyway?
A full draft Operational Plan by the 8th of February? Certainly, sir. Would you prefer the sums to be wrong, or the method unrealistic?