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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.
The Northern Ireland Assembly asked for some advice on waiting times policy. So I had a grand day out in Belfast, and this is what I suggested.
The NAO have done a good report on waiting times. This is an opportunity to simplify the targets, make better use of Choose & Book, and knuckle down to the hard job of getting the record-keeping right.
Last-minute deals, plans that nobody believes in... does the annual contracting round have to be like this?
The English NHS held steady on 18 weeks with an increase in admissions, despite signs of increased pressure on waiting times. Orthopaedics slipped fractionally below target again.
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.
Are your winter plans refreshed every week, so you can adapt quickly? Are they so rich in detail that you have a feeling for them, as well as an understanding? All this can be done automatically now, and just dropped straight into your dashboards.
For the first time since records began, the English waiting list grew in the month of October. Still, 18-week waits were steady. One-year waits probably got worse.
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.