All articles by Rob Findlay – Page 15
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CommentEnglish waiting list tops 3 million, its biggest in six years
The English waiting list is 20 per cent bigger than at the last general election but despite that, long waits have improved under the Coalition. We are now well into the zone where the ‘90 per cent adjusted admitted’ target is at risk
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CommentElection 2015: 18 week waits remain at risk
The national waiting list is nothing like a simple queue
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HSJ Local18 week waits, April 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waits around England, with links to the detail by organisation and specialty
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CommentEnglish waiting times step back from the brink
But trouble is still building in the longest wait specialties
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Comment18 weeks targets force pressured trusts into perverse patient scheduling
Patients out of order
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CommentScotland puts the squeeze on outpatient long waits
Underlying pressures continue to build on trusts
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CommentTo the NHS: Please explain the missing waiting list data
Yet another trust has dropped out of the stats
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CommentCCGs should authorise 18-week target breaches
We must make sure a good crisis does not go to waste
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Comment'England is stuck with complex and perverse waiting times targets'
The government won’t fix this system
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HSJ Local18 week waits, February 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waits around England, with links to the detail by organisation and specialty
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CommentFebruary waits: England breaches 18 weeks, in a good way
Target missed for first time in years
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CommentJanuary 2014 waits: More patients choose to delay treatment
Delays tip trusts into target breach
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CommentAnother surprise rise in the English waiting list
The list isn’t supposed to grow in January
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BlogsScottish waiting times still worsening
Waiting times are getting worse in Scotland, but you wouldn’t know it from the government’s press release.
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BlogsCQC to improve referral to treatment monitoring
The CQC are improving their 18-weeks monitoring. It still isn’t perfect, but that may not be entirely their fault.
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BlogsSandbags, dredging and waiting times forecasts
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency’s management of flood risk?
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Your 18 week waits: December 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
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And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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BlogsWaiting times: safe, fair, short, efficient
The Northern Ireland Assembly asked for some advice on waiting times policy. So I had a grand day out in Belfast, and this is what I suggested.