Your 18 week waits: February 2014 data
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.
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England breaches 18 weeks. But in a good way.
England failed at national level to achieve the "90 per cent of admissions within 18 weeks" target. Good. It shows that hospitals are doing the right thing by treating their longest-waiting patients as soon as they can. Even better, NHS England are cheering them on.
How many patients choose to wait longer?
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.
Lucky waiting list initiatives
Repeated waiting list initiatives are certainly undesirable. Should we go further, and declare them a sign of failure?
Another surprise rise in the English waiting list
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.
Your 18 week waits: January 2014 data
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.
Consultation: What is “recurring demand”?
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.
Scottish waiting times still worsening
Waiting times are getting worse in Scotland, but you wouldn't know it from the government's press release.
CQC to improve RTT monitoring
The CQC are improving their 18-weeks monitoring. It still isn't perfect, but that may not be entirely their fault.
Sandbags, dredging, and waiting times forecasting
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency's management of flood risk? Mainly this: the NHS doesn't do nearly enough forecasting.