Your 18 week waits: April 2013 data
The local picture on one-year and 18-week waits across England, updated with the latest (April 2013) data.
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Waiting lists and criminal offences
It will soon be a criminal offence to supply false or misleading waiting list data. Time to get ready.
Scotland slips on outpatient waits
Scotland is slipping badly on its least-enforced waiting times target. It's not looking good for the most-enforced one either.
English waiting list bigger than thought
After fixing an error around Trusts mergers, the adjusted English waiting list turns out to be bigger than first estimated.
Treat more, clear the backlog! Slow down, you’re over-performing!
Did your annual plan resolve the tension between 18 weeks and limited resources? Or was that tension handed on for operational managers to resolve somehow? Are they succeeding? How do you know?
Sharp increase in English waiting list
The number of patients waiting rose sharply in March, and is now higher than in recent years and may indicate waiting times pressures to come. But bed pressures over winter do not explain all the increase.
Your 18 week waits: March 2013 data
The local picture on one-year and 18-week waits across England, updated with the latest (March 2013) data.
The mystery of the missing waiting list patients
Thousands of patients are apparently missing from the English waiting list. February was 28 days long. Together, those facts help us work out what on earth might be going on.
Your plan achieves 18 weeks at year end. But…
Now it's easy to turn your annual plans into weekly ones.
One-year-waits race towards zero
One year waits continue to fall sharply. 18 week waits, and the waiting list overall, are steady. Orthopaedic long-waits are deteriorating.