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By looking at clock pauses, you can estimate how many patients choose to wait longer. Which is good to know, when you're managing a service that's getting uncomfortably close to the non-admitted or incomplete pathways targets.
Repeated waiting list initiatives are certainly undesirable. Should we go further, and declare them a sign of failure?
The waiting list isn't supposed to grow in January, but it did. It is fast approaching the 3 million mark, and national breaches of 18 weeks later in the year have become a little more likely.
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
At the moment, elective "recurring demand" includes knock-ons from outpatients. We'd like to split that out and make the distinction clear, but aren't sure exactly how best to do it. Here are the options we are considering, and we'd like to know what you think.
Waiting times are getting worse in Scotland, but you wouldn't know it from the government's press release.
The CQC are improving their 18-weeks monitoring. It still isn't perfect, but that may not be entirely their fault.
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency's management of flood risk? Mainly this: the NHS doesn't do nearly enough forecasting.
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.