All articles by Rob Findlay
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Wait list falls for sixth consecutive month but too slowly
This run of good news is probably coming to an end
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Elective recovery remains stalled
The waiting list needs to be shrinking about 10 times faster
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in November 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Elective recovery loses more momentum
Elective recovery slowed again in November. But, says Rob Findlay, the right approach to the renewed national waiting time targets could reverse the decline.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in October 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Accelerating elective recovery takes a pause
The rate of waiting list reduction has paused far short of the required one million per year.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Elective recovery gets underway
The pace will need to be even higher in 2025-26, writes Rob Findlay.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in August 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Year-on-year waiting list reduction accelerates
But it needs to shrink by nearly a million a year to restore 18-week waits.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in July 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Waiting list falls year-on-year for first time since pandemic
But it needs to fall a lot faster to recover “18 weeks” performance.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in June 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Labour’s inheritance on RTT waiting times
At the end of the last government, waiting times were bad but no longer getting worse.
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Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Comment
Wait list and wait times worsened again in May
A worsening situation in the penultimate waiting times data for the outgoing Conservative government