PERFORMANCE: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust had 2,187 patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment at the end of March - more than it had planned if it is to meet government standards of 92 per cent of outstanding patients waiting less than 18 weeks.
It has a target of no more than 1004 patients waiting at the end of March.
The trust board heard that extra inhouse capacity was being identified and patients were also being offered choice.
February 2012
Public satisfaction with waiting times have declined, according to NHS-commissioned research.
By creating a more representative and better trained workforce and providing a greater choice of treatments and treatment contexts, we will increase the chance of engaging men in mental health services, writes Professor Sarah Niblock
A foundation trust is outsourcing more than 100 patients to a private facility for chemotherapy.
An independent investigation into the attack and killing of two people on a hospital ward by another patient has concluded the attack was “probably preventable”, a leak of its report reveals.
NHS England has been given more time to submit an independent investigation into the killing of two men by another patient on a hospital ward.
A coroner has given NHS England less than three months to complete an investigation into a fatal attack on two hospital patients amid confusion of the investigation’s status, HSJ has learned.
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