18-week waits still improving
18-week waits continued to improve, but large reductions in long-waiters were offset by some relaxation in services that are already achieving the target.
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Will new waiting time records be broken?
Will the number of long-waiting patients being admitted finally fall below the General Election level? It looks like it will.
A Mandate for bad waiting list management
The draft NHS Mandate will drive up waiting times, undermine the NHS Constitution, and be unfair to patients. Not what was intended, obviously.
Wider lessons from Imperial’s long waits
How can we make the NHS more resilient against the risk of waiting times failures?
Your 18 week waits: April 2012
Interactive maps and resources with detailed analysis of the 18-week pressures by Trust and PCT, by specialty.
Focus on waiting list still delivering success
The focus on incomplete pathways continues to deliver results, according to the April 2012 figures just released, with new records broken across all measures of long-waiters still on the list.
A new way to work out demand
How should we measure demand? It depends on whether we have greater faith in our waiting list data, or our additions data.
Brilliant: Sheffield builds a Gooroo Dataset Creation Tool
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals have created a lovely interactive tool that non-analysts can use to generate Gooroo datasets automatically.
The active patient tracking list
In parallel with our HSJ article about active PTLs, this blog post explains how they work.
Wait control: a new system for better waiting list management
Creating a new system for waiting list management will help trusts nail their waiting times targets