Waiting list soars past 5.6 million patients
The waiting list continues to grow rapidly as demand mostly recovers but activity cannot.
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English waiting list passes 5.4 million
Ongoing covid restrictions mean the waiting list continues to grow, with little sign of the pent-up demand coming back yet
How to target a short wait for diagnosis
A cancer-style referral-to-diagnosis target sounds simple. But it turns out to be a lot more complicated than splitting the RTT target.
37 week wait for diagnosis
A long wait for diagnosis means late detection of many cancers
Thousands of patients waiting over two years as list tops five million
The post covid recovery continues, and waiting time pressures are building.
So it begins: the real elective backlog starts to emerge
Referrals are up year-on-year, for the first time since covid restrictions began. But activity is not.
Analysis: the long road to restoring elective care performance
The English NHS may need to increase elective activity by around 15 per cent, for most of the decade, to recover waiting times safely
A post-covid elective recovery scenario
The planning guidance expects covid restrictions to continue until September. What does this mean for your waiting lists and the subsequent recovery?
Using referral-to-treatment (RTT) data to plan the covid recovery
A technical discussion: how to convert the published RTT statistics into stage-of-treatment data that is ready for post-covid recovery planning
English NHS breaches 52 weeks
Waiting times across England as a whole have now breached 52 weeks. The silver lining is that, in a couple of months, the published data will be much improved: extending up to 104 weeks with mental health waits itemised.