All Waiting lists articles – Page 22
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CommentJohnson’s government: One step forward for mental health, too many steps back
An informed and ambitious plan could positively change the way Britain’s mental health system works from top to bottom. Paul Farmer explores how.
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CommentThe NHS's approach to reducing elective waiting times is unlikely to work
Trying to eliminate cohorts of waiting list patients is too simplistic says Rob Findlay
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NewsRevealed: Only two ICSs seeing more elective inpatient activity than pre-covid
Providers in just two integrated care systems carried out more inpatient elective procedures in the first quarter of this year than before the covid pandemic, HSJ analysis of official data has revealed.
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CommentPM Truss will demand cuts in ‘NHS bureaucracy’
We are mercifully nearly at the end. In a few days, we will know who will replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. And unless the polls are completely wrong, that person will be Liz Truss. But during what has felt a long campaign with more heat than light what might ...
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in June 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentElective waits continued to worsen in June
Growing underlying pressures are coming into conflict with the headline targets.
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NewsNHS England reveals six targets for ICSs this winter
NHS England today identified six key metrics it will use to monitor the performance of every integrated care system this winter.
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HSJ PartnersClinician empowerment is the key to transforming eye care services
Dr Peter Morgan-Warren, BMBCh MA(Oxon) PhD FRCOphth, Therapy Area Head for Ophthalmology at Bayer plc., discusses how involving clinicians in local policy decisions is crucial to improving eye care for patients across the country
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HSJ InteractiveRestoring eye care services to reduce avoidable sight loss
A recent HSJ webinar explores issues surrounding the huge backlogs for ophthalmology treatments, how to tackle them and the pandemic’s role in our response
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NewsLeak reveals 1,300 confirmed cancer patients still waiting after 104 days
More than 1,000 people are still waiting for cancer treatment 104 days after referral, despite having received a confirmed cancer diagnosis and having been referred with ‘urgent suspected cancer’, leaked data shows.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Why the NHS will struggle to hit 78-week target
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts with toughest challenge to hit next elective target
The NHS will struggle to meet its pledge to eliminate 78-week breaches by March 2023, senior figures have warned, as an HSJ analysis lays bare the challenge of delivering the service’s next major elective recovery milestone.
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LeaderThe NHS is not living with covid, it’s dying from it
Some of the covid control measures taken in the past two years need to return, argue Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of the British Medical Journal, and HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentElective volumes rise as covid measures ease
Elective admissions rose sharply following the relaxation of covid measures, but it was not enough to stop the waiting list from growing.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The best and worst cancer waits by ICB
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe NHS must move 'beyond pills'
The College of Medicine’s Beyond Pills campaign highlights the importance of social prescribing that can lead to better outcomes, fewer side effects, improved mental, physical and social health, and major savings to the NHS, write Dr Michael Dixon and Professor Sir Sam Everington
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HSJ InteractiveCan addressing the backlog be a means of addressing health inequalities?
An HSJ webinar brought together a panel of experts to consider how tackling the backlog might perhaps become synonymous with tackling inequality. Claire Read reports
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NewsTrust chiefs resist ‘pressure’ to treat patients in corridors
Hospital leaders say they have been pressured to deliver more ‘corridor care’ as a result of efforts to ease the ambulance handover crisis.
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CommentThe challenge facing Johnson's successor
Even as political winds shift, it’s imperative that future public and political debate on taxes and public spending on NHS is rooted in a clear understanding of the nature and scale of the challenges facing the NHS, writes Anita Charlesworth