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NewsHospital removed 1,000 patients from waiting list 'retrospectively'
A hospital trust has removed more than 1,000 patients from its waiting list by retrospectively applying referral criteria, which local GPs have said is disruptive and unsafe.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Can patients save the NHS?
This week, the HSJ Health Check podcast explores how Labour hopes a fundamental change in the relationship between patients and services can turn the NHS around.
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HSJ Local650 patients reviewed for harm after dropping off waiting list
A trust is reviewing potential harm to 650 patients who were lost from its waiting lists, some of whom have waited more than 15 months.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in August 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWaiting list grows for third consecutive month
The waiting list should shrink every month to achieve the 18-weeks pledge in 2029
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s ugly baby
This week we take a look at two of the hottest topics in the NHS – productivity and technology.
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News‘Online hospital’ to open in 2027, says PM
Plans for a new NHS “online hospital” service to deliver millions of appointments each year by “digitally connecting patients to specialist clinicians” are set to be unveiled by the prime minister today.
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NewsCEOs urged to ‘walk the floor of A&E’ this winter
Local NHS leaders should “step up personal visibility and leadership” in their emergency care services this winter, NHS England’s CEO has said.
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NewsCEO blames IT system for diagnostics slump
A chief executive has blamed his trust’s electronic patient record for the collapse of its diagnostic performance.
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CommentThe 10-Year Plan reform risks leaving neurology behind
MS Society CEO Nick Moberly explains why we should all be concerned about rising unplanned hospital admissions for people with multiple sclerosis
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in July 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWaiting list veers off track
When the effects of validation petered out in July, the waiting list started growing
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NewsClinicians’ concerns have held up outpatient reform, says Mackey
NHS England’s outpatients recovery efforts have been stymied by a lack of funding and because “we’ve struggled to get the clinical community uniformly behind it”, Sir Jim Mackey has told MPs.
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HSJ LocalHospitals ‘turn off’ waiting list help for neighbours
A major acute provider has said other trusts have “turned off” their assistance in driving down elective backlogs – meaning progress on long waits is “not as quick as it could be”.
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NewsEnglish trusts resist Welsh waiting time policy
Multiple English hospitals are refusing a Welsh health board’s request to delay operations for up to two years.
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NewsRevealed: Hospitals where the poor wait much longer than the rich
Some of the NHS’s best performing trusts have a big gap between waiting times for their most and least deprived patients.
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NewsICBs told to ‘urgently review unacceptable waiting times’
NHS England has warned integrated care boards it is “not acceptable” to set “minimum waiting times” of more than 18 weeks for elective care.
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NewsMultiple patients harmed at ‘overly cautious’ trust
Multiple glaucoma patients were harmed at a trust that was “overly cautious” about surgical intervention and did not follow national care guidelines, a royal college review has found.
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NewsTargets revealed for £40m bonus fund
NHS England has published the criteria trusts must meet to secure a share of a £40m elective incentives pot.
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NewsNHSE admits service not on course to hit 2025-26 waiting list targets
NHS England’s elective chief has admitted the service is not on course to hit the main 2025-26 elective care targets and has “more to do” to bring performance “back in line”.