Do CQC and Monitor understand 18 week waits?
The CQC and Monitor are applying the 18-weeks targets in ways that deter hospitals from treating long-waiting patients. If there is a good reason for this, I'd like to hear it.
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How do you plan elective surgery around the winter peak?
You're already implementing your winter plan, right? To get inpatients lists down before the winter peak? Well, winter planning is really hard using a spreadsheet. So it's time to dump the spreadsheet.
Unexpected rise in August waiting list
The waiting list put on a surprising growth spurt in August, as the NHS failed again to keep up with the rise in referrals. Yet long-waits performance remained steady. Whether this will hold into winter remains to be seen.
Your 18 week waits: August 2013 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.
The annual planning round (and round, and round)
How can we structure this year's planning round, to stop it from going around in circles?
English waiting list peaking just below 3 million
The English waiting list peaks just below 3 million: the largest reported list size since April 2008. But 18 weeks performance remains steady.
Your 18 week waits: July 2013 data
All the local detail on 18 weeks by provider, commissioner and specialty, with interactive maps
Latest developments in the Gooroo software
Latest developments: training videos, SimActive file splitter utility for Excel 2003, converting Planner reports into datasets, and a new waiting times calculation.
Outpatient waits take the pain in Scotland
Scotland does well against its two main waiting times targets. So why are outpatient waits soaring?
What next for “18 weeks” policy?
The Government should not tighten the 18 weeks targets. Instead, it should make them irrelevant.