The NHS is getting waiting times management wrong

By Rob Findlay2016-03-23T07:00:00

It sounds sensible to book patients in before they breach the target – but in practice it is unfair, unsafe, and keeps waiting times on the brink of failure. Rob Findlay writes about a better way

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