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Scotland’s Treatment Time Guarantee shows results
Scotland's inpatient and daycase waits, which are subject to a legally binding target, improved. Outpatient waits, which aren't, didn't.
Your 18 week waits: December 2012 data
Interactive maps showing where the long-wait pressures are, for NHS and IS providers and for commissioners. All updated with the latest (December 2012) data.
Putting on wait: English waiting list looking big
Some waiting times figures got a bit better in December, some a bit worse. But the size of the waiting list is starting to look worryingly big.
“18-weeks” penalties change again: this time it’s good
At last: instead of punishing hospitals for treating their long-waiters, the latest NHS Contract prevents long-wait backlogs from building up in the first place.
Commissioning Board changes “18 week wait” penalties
The Commissioning Board has made a small, but significant and welcome, change to the penalties for breaching 18 week waits.
Commissioning Board fumbles on waiting times
The draft NHS Contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?
Your 18 week waits: November 2012 data
The local picture on 18 week and one-year waiting times, for every English provider and commissioner, updated with the latest (November 2012) data.
NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
Waiting times improved slightly again in England, with new record-bests for long-waiters on the waiting list.
One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
The dramatic reduction in one-year-waiters was more down to validation than treating real patients. But it's essential nonetheless: there were still plenty of real patients there.