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.
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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.
Post-covid recovery planning FAQs
Whether you're planning the coming months or the recovery, or both, here are the questions people are asking
England only weeks away from a national 52 week waiting times breach
And then we won't know how long waiting times really are.
Waiting times lengthen rapidly as winter bites
The elective recovery ground to a halt in December, as waiting times showed their fastest increase since July.
Gooroo Planner – minor upgrade released
This minor upgrade improves the Editing tab, catches more data file issues cleanly, and fixes a bunch of other things.
Outpatients drive elective recovery in November
Elective waits had their best covid month so far, thanks to the recovery in outpatient services. But pent-up demand continues to build in the community.