Quality and performance

Flagship waiting time target ‘expected’ to be relaxed

By 2019-11-26T06:03:00

Stephen powis

Bosses at a trust trialling new access targets “expect” the existing 18-week referral to treatment requirement to be replaced by an 8.5 week average wait — a move experts say would represent a relaxation of standards.

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