All articles by Rob Findlay – Page 4
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Elective waits settle into steady deterioration
The temporary effects of the first covid shutdown have fed through, and waiting times are now on an upward trend.
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Why some people on elective waiting lists may never reach the front of the queue
If we don’t keep up with demand, some patients may never reach the front of the queue
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The NHS is hiding delays to care for millions of patients
Covid has created an urgent need, and a unique opportunity, to get the true waiting list out in the open.
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Waiting list soars past 5.6 million patients
The waiting list continues to grow rapidly as demand mostly recovers but activity cannot. By Rob Findlay
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English waiting list passes 5.4 million
Ongoing covid restrictions mean the waiting list continues to grow, with little sign of the pent-up demand coming back yet, says Rob Findlay
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A referral to diagnosis target is the wrong solution to the huge risk in the elective backlog
A cancer-style referral-to-diagnosis target sounds simple. But it turns out to be a lot more complicated than splitting the RTT target. By Rob Findlay
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The 37-week wait for diagnosis
A long wait for diagnosis means late detection of many cancers
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Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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The NHS' five million plus elective waiting list analysed
The post covid recovery continues, and waiting time pressures are building.
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Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty
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So it begins: the real elective backlog starts to emerge
Referrals are up year-on-year, for the first time since covid restrictions began. But activity is not.
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Analysis: the long road to restoring elective care performance
How bad will elective waiting times get? And what will we need to do about it? Rob Findlay crunches the numbers.
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Mapped: England's longest elective care waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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English NHS breaches 52 weeks
Waiting times across England as a whole have now breached 52 weeks. The silver lining is that, in a couple of months, the published data will be much improved: extending up to 104 weeks with mental health waits itemised. By Rob Findlay
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England just weeks away from a national 52 week waiting times breach
And then we won’t know how long waiting times really are. By Rob Findlay
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Mapped: RTT waiting time
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2020, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Waiting times lengthen rapidly as winter bites
The elective recovery ground to a halt in December, as waiting times showed their fastest increase since July. By Rob Findlay
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The good news (among the bad) on NHS waiting lists
Elective waits had their best covid month so far, thanks to the recovery in outpatient services, but pent-up demand continues to build in the community, writes Rob Findlay
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Mapped: A&E, cancer and RTT waiting time
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England in last two months of 2020, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty. RTT and cancer data is for November and A&E data is for December.
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Referral-to-treatment waiting time targets have reached the end of the road
The focus this winter should be reducing risk for clinical priority patients, argues Rob Findlay