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Waiting lists

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Norfolk and Norwich at risk of breaching authorisation

24-May-2012
The active patient tracking list

24-May-2012
Wait control: a new system for better waiting list management

24-May-2012
The 18-week waits performance in your region

18-May-2012
Leeds Hospitals, Mid Yorks and York FT 'missing elective wait targets'

18-May-2012
Southend agrees contract for 2012-13

17-May-2012
James Paget's performance slumps

17-May-2012
Does cutting long-waits cause a jump in demand?

16-May-2012
Text message service launched to reduce missed appointments

11-May-2012
Minister denies cutting Welsh NHS budget

11-May-2012
Monitor directs foundation trust to tackle A&E performance

9-May-2012
New day surgery unit at Lincoln County Hospital

1-May-2012
Waiting list target missed at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt FT

27-Apr-2012
Michael White: the battle over waiting times is blurred by both sides

26-Apr-2012
Plymouth Hospitals Trust struggles with 18 week backlog

25-Apr-2012
Waiting times: 'strong' or 'a huge embarrassment'?

25-Apr-2012
Trust put finances ahead of waiting lists, Monitor suggests

24-Apr-2012
NHS reports strong performance on 18 weeks targets

20-Apr-2012
Your 18-week waits

20-Apr-2012
Latest waiting times 'embarrassing' for government - Labour

20-Apr-2012
NHS consolidates its position on waiting times

19-Apr-2012
Regulator puts Bolton FT in 'significant breach' over waiting times

17-Apr-2012
Health board management to be scrutinised over waiting times

4-Apr-2012
Waiting times soar as Scotland's backstop fails

3-Apr-2012
The local picture on waiting times

20-Mar-2012
Targets met, records broken: good news on waiting times

15-Mar-2012
Heatherwood struggles on 18 week target

15-Mar-2012
EoE ambulance performance hit by hospital delays

13-Mar-2012
A&E waits too long at James Paget

13-Mar-2012
Performance metrics problem for East Sussex Healthcare

6-Mar-2012
Hospitals meet 18 week waiting time target

29-Feb-2012
Unwelcome 18 week anniversary for Frimley Park

27-Feb-2012
18 week issues at Lincs partnership

27-Feb-2012
Wirral FT analyses steep decline in waiting list performance

24-Feb-2012
Toynbee exposes the waiting list cheats

22-Feb-2012
More waiting list patients frozen in time

22-Feb-2012
December's waiting times data - the local picture

17-Feb-2012
Latest on 18 week waits: better in December

16-Feb-2012
Exclusive: London lost over 70 emergency calls after clocks went back

16 February 2012
Pennine Acute waiting targets performance falls again in November

15-Feb-2012
Imperial's waiting times holiday

14-Feb-2012
How reduced internal delays can save money, and thousands of bed days

14-Feb-2012
PMQs and the truth about waiting times

8-Feb-2012
Bristol just misses out on A&E standard in December

2-Feb-2012
Three hundred wait more than four hours at Queen Elizabeth

2-Feb-2012
Imperial suspends reporting on waiting lists

2-Feb-2012
Commissioner contract still unsigned at RUH

26-Jan-2012
Guy's and St Thomas' missing 18wk referral to treatment time targets

24-Jan-2012
The local picture on waiting times

23-Jan-2012
Northern Devon performs best on 18 week RTT target

20-Jan-2012
Peterborough and Stamford fails to hit waiting time target

20-Jan-2012
Latest RTT waiting times data - November 2011

19-Jan-2012
Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets

17-Jan-2012
Wirral FT receiving ‘intensive support’ for waiting times problems

16-Jan-2012
Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target

16-Jan-2012
Hospital mergers have little benefit, study suggests

12-Jan-2012
PCT expects further poor waiting times figures from Royal Bolton

6-Jan-2012
250 Pennine Acute ‘backlog’ patients transferred to private sector

4-Jan-2012
Exclusive: contractual penalties to combat ‘hidden waits’ will not take effect until 2013-14

4-Jan-2012
Wirral among worst in country for referral to treatment times – DH report

23-Dec-2011
New English waiting list data: view the interactive maps

19-Dec-2011
St Helens and Knowsley October admitted RTT performance third lowest in North West

16-Dec-2011
University Hospitals of Leicester faces 2pc contract cut over elective waits

16-Dec-2011
Liverpool Women’s October admitted RTT performance best in North West

16-Dec-2011
Central Manchester FT scores 79.2 per cent against 18 week target in October

16-Dec-2011
Wirral Teaching Hospital October admitted RTT performance lowest in region

16-Dec-2011
Endoscopy waits under scrutiny at Gloucestershire acute trust

15-Dec-2011
Royal Cornwall Hospital fined over 18 weeks backlog

15-Dec-2011
Waiting times a concern in Norfolk

15-Dec-2011
NHS Cambs breaches diagnostics waiting target

14-Dec-2011
Increased demand for neurosurgery presses Walton Centre waiting times

9-Dec-2011
Commissioners request detailed plan for tackling Alder Hey waiting times

9-Dec-2011
New target, new perversity

8-Dec-2011
Monitor to review FT assessment process but 'the bar will remain high'

8 December 2011
Patients' right to alternative provider should be 'publicised'

1 December 2011
Leading teaching hospital may have to outsource long-waiters

25-Nov-2011
New duties on waiting times and readmissions for providers in Operating Framework

24-Nov-2011
Shrewsbury and Telford review after 'blind' concerns

17-Nov-2011
Making the case for a one-year limit on waiting times

17-Nov-2011
DH to act on thousands of long-wait patients

17-Nov-2011
Amber-red rating for Coventry and Warwickshire over C difficile and waiting times

16-Nov-2011
Lansley to announce 'ban' on minimum waiting times

14-Nov-2011
NHS Bolton invokes 'contractual penalties' over foundation trust’s waiting times

3-Nov-2011
Heatherwood and Wexham feeling the strain in the South

3 November 2011
How mobile healthcare solutions could help tackle waiting times

3 November 2011
Monitor examines FTs' patient guarantees loophole

2-Nov-2011
Unplanned A&E re-attendance remains above target in Bolton

1-Nov-2011
Heatherwood FT rated red in Monitor submission

28-Oct-2011
Heatherwood FT cuts waiting time reduction schemes

27-Oct-2011
London's hospital trusts set to miss waiting time targets

27 October 2011
When the long-waiters are forgotten

26-Oct-2011
Newham improves 18 week RTT but is still below 90 per cent

21-Oct-2011
Commissioners reject University Hospitals of Leicester waiting times action plan

20-Oct-2011
64 patients declined funding as NHS Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target

17-Oct-2011
Doncaster nurse prescribers slash alcohol addiction treatment times

14-Oct-2011
Performance notices on Oxford Radcliffe lifted after improvements

14-Oct-2011
Waiting targets being missed by one in three PCTs

14-Oct-2011
Latest RTT waiting times: August 2011

14-Oct-2011
Patients facing 27-week waits for physiotherapy services

7-Oct-2011
Lansley and Neil in the waiting times trap

6-Oct-2011
DH analysing big 18 weeks backlog at Shrewsbury and Telford

5-Oct-2011
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals 'underperforming' says DH

5-Oct-2011
Ban commissioners from setting minimum waiting times - CCP

5-Oct-2011
Kingston says most year-plus elective waits have already been treated

4-Oct-2011
'Medical tourism' warning over government cuts

30-Sep-2011
Plymouth Hospitals makes 18 week target despite backlog

30-Sep-2011
Deteriorating A&E waits at Peterborough and Stamford FT

27-Sep-2011
Waiting times at Central Manchester FT ‘more challenging’ than other trusts

14-Sep-2011
London trust wide of the mark on waiting times

7-Sep-2011
Southampton trust misses targets on waiting times

16-Aug-2011
East Cheshire Trust misses key waiting times targets again

8-Aug-2011
Imperial served with performance notice over 18-weeks target

8-Aug-2011
Amber-red rating for North West Ambulance Service’s FT bid

8-Aug-2011
South London A&E performance running at winter peak levels in May and June

26-Jul-2011
Perfect placement: getting patients out of hospital and onto their preferred pathway

25-Jul-2011
Solent misses surplus target as out of hours service struggles

22-Jul-2011
Waiting and IT concerns at Newcastle Hospitals

21-Jul-2011
Shrewsbury and Telford risks 'worst case' £5m deficit

20-Jul-2011
Derby Hospitals missing five Monitor targets

12-Jul-2011
North East tops regions on A&E waiting times

12-Jul-2011
Sheffield Children’s to address waiting problems

11-Jul-2011
Winchester and Eastleigh misses waiting times targets

4-Jul-2011
Yorkshire trusts pulled up on elective waiting times

4-Jul-2011
Flory highlights 'unacceptable' waiting times

4-Jul-2011
Learning lessons from north of the border

4-Jul-2011
Seven trusts and two primary care trusts finished 2010-11 in deficit, DH says

30-Jun-2011
Waiting times problems at Hull and East Yorks Hospitals

21-Jun-2011
Central Manchester FT’s backlog of Trafford patients rises 30 per cent

17-Jun-2011
18 week waiting target breached at Pennine Acute

16-Jun-2011
Mid Essex savings and governance issues 'escalated'

13-Jun-2011
Royal Cornwall brings in mobile surgeries in bid to meet 18 week target

6-Jun-2011
UCLH commits to financial risk rating of at least three for 2011-12

26-May-2011
More patients waiting longer for diagnostic tests

26 May 2011
RiO problems hit Oxford Health FT

18-May-2011
Heatherwood and Wexham Park missing cancer targets due to capacity problems

19-Apr-2011
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber FT cuts CAMHS waits

19-Apr-2011
PCT warns Peterborough and Stamford FT on 18 weeks

18-Apr-2011
South Tees struggles with C diff and cancer waits

12-Apr-2011
Guy's and St Thomas's A and E under pressure

18-Mar-2011
South Warwickshire FT misses national targets

11-Mar-2011
Concerns raised over children's waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester

11-Mar-2011
Just 38.5 per cent of Trafford Healthcare referrals to The Christie hit cancer waiting target

9-Mar-2011
Waits at Southport and Ormskirk above national threshold

9-Mar-2011
West Essex PCT reports 18 week standard at risk

2-Mar-2011
Row brews over Central Manchester UH FT diagnostic test waiting times

2-Mar-2011
Waits for diagnostic tests rise sharply for NHS Stockport patients

1-Mar-2011
Royal Cornwall ordered to offer gynae patients alternative provider

28-Feb-2011
Pennine acute misses 12 out of 65 performance targets

28-Feb-2011
Stockport FT contract £2.5m overspent, while waiting times increase

25-Feb-2011
Low patient numbers make waiting targets a challenge for Aintree Hospitals FT

24-Feb-2011
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals miss waiting targets in five specialties

24-Feb-2011
Oral surgery backlog at Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT

23-Feb-2011
PCT tells Basildon and Thurrock FT to delay appointments

21-Feb-2011
Buckinghamshire Healthcare rejects PCT call to extend waiting times

17-Feb-2011
Over 1,000 patients miss waiting time targets at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust

3-Feb-2011
Oral surgery problems threaten South Warwickshire FT waiting times

25-Jan-2011

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