All Waiting lists articles – Page 23
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsHospitals taking on two-year waiters won’t be penalised, says NHSE
Concerns that providers are not taking as many patients as they could from struggling neighbours because they feared having to add breaches to their lists have prompted NHS England to publish new mutual aid rules.
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CommentUnderlying pressure still rising on elective waiting times
Although elective headline waiting times fell slightly in February, both the waiting list and the wait to diagnosis went up, writes Rob Findlay
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NewsTrusts with the most two-year elective breaches revealed
The NHS has improved its position on one- and two-year-plus breaches for the first time since the system was forced to start reporting waiters over 104 weeks last April, data published today shows.
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HSJ PartnersDelivering community diagnostic centres to improve access to early diagnosis
Philippa Robinson, Regional Director of London, highlights the critical factors leading to a successful delivery of a community diagnostic centre
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Comment‘Get your team back to the frontline’: an open letter to the new NHSE chair
In an open letter to NHS England chair Richard Meddings, Sir Sam Everington outlines tips to improve the performance of the NHS
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NewsView grows that NHS ‘must live within its means’ as satisfaction plummets
The view the NHS must deliver significant improvements within its existing budget has risen sharply, alongside a dramatic fall in public satisfaction, according to the most respected annual survey of attitudes towards the UK’s health and care services.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE pushes ‘private patient opportunities’ in leaked guidance
Official draft guidance has encouraged trusts to grow their ‘private patient opportunities’, despite facing huge backlogs of NHS work.
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NewsExclusive: A&E tents ‘borderline immoral’ and ‘dangerous’, claims royal college
The use of temporary treatment areas for patients arriving via ambulance at over-crowded A&Es is ‘borderline immoral’ and ‘a danger to patient safety and dignity’, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Partnership Awards 2022: Best Acute Sector Partnership with the NHS
WINNER: Genmed and South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre: A Partnership Delivering Additional Capacity, Technology and Value Through Surgery Managed Services
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NewsLong ambulance handovers and covid staff absences soar
Ambulance handovers of over an hour have hit record highs in the last two weeks, with one day seeing more than 1,500 ambulances waiting outside A&E departments for more than 60 minutes.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Move two-year waiters to trusts which can cope
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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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentOnly one in 10 trusts meeting 18-week elective target
Waiting times after referral have reached nine months for a diagnosis and decision, and 10 months for treatment. But the experience of individual patients varies enormously, says Rob Findlay
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CommentWhat Javid’s speech was really about
Built as a big reform speech, Sajid Javid’s recent speech widely left health policy commentators, who follow such reform talk closely, frustrated, bemused, underwhelmed or all three, writes Richard Sloggett
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NewsOmicron hit cancer performance harder than first covid wave
The omicron variant had a bigger effect on cancer performance than the first wave of coronavirus in 2020, official data suggests.
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NewsNHS England to replace cancer targets
The two-week wait cancer target should be scrapped and replaced with a different measure, as part of an overhaul of cancer standards, NHS England has said.
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CommentFair, not fast, should be the watchword when reducing waiting lists
Alongside the operational challenge of tackling backlogs inclusively, clarity will be needed about how systems are held to account for tackling inequalities when there are competing priorities. By Ruth Robertson