How can the NHS improve outpatient referrals?
The outpatient referral process has grown in complexity in recent years, often leaving both GPs and consultants frustrated and patients receiving inefficient care. Some areas are now investigating whether digital technology could help, as Claire Read reports
Waiting lists to grow until spring at beleaguered London acute
NHS England faces ‘external review’ of private sector covid contracts
Revealed: Large areas left with just a handful of hospital beds for non-covid patients
Improving the quality of the outpatient referral process
Revealed: the nine hospital trusts where covid patients fill at least half the beds