Your 18 week waits: January 2013 data
Interactive maps showing the local picture on waiting times, with click-through to detailed reports. Fully updated with the latest data for January 2013.
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Interactive maps showing the local picture on waiting times, with click-through to detailed reports. Fully updated with the latest data for January 2013.
Gooroo Planner has always had collaboration tools built-in, but now everyone can collaborate directly on the master plan.
England's waiting time guarantees are more inclusive than Scotland's. Why?
Monitor is out to consultation. Our response explains why their approach to 18 week waits is perverse, and how to fix it.
Scotland's inpatient and daycase waits, which are subject to a legally binding target, improved. Outpatient waits, which aren't, didn't.
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.
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.
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.
The Commissioning Board has made a small, but significant and welcome, change to the penalties for breaching 18 week waits.
The draft NHS Contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?