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.
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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?
The local picture on 18 week and one-year waiting times, for every English provider and commissioner, updated with the latest (November 2012) data.
Waiting times improved slightly again in England, with new record-bests for long-waiters on the waiting list.
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.
A quick round-up of the software enhancements we've put in place over recent weeks.