All articles by Rob Findlay – Page 15
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Comment18 weeks targets force pressured trusts into perverse patient scheduling
Patients out of order
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CommentScotland puts the squeeze on outpatient long waits
Underlying pressures continue to build on trusts
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CommentTo the NHS: Please explain the missing waiting list data
Yet another trust has dropped out of the stats
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CommentCCGs should authorise 18-week target breaches
We must make sure a good crisis does not go to waste
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Comment'England is stuck with complex and perverse waiting times targets'
The government won’t fix this system
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HSJ Local18 week waits, February 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waits around England, with links to the detail by organisation and specialty
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CommentFebruary waits: England breaches 18 weeks, in a good way
Target missed for first time in years
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CommentJanuary 2014 waits: More patients choose to delay treatment
Delays tip trusts into target breach
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CommentAnother surprise rise in the English waiting list
The list isn’t supposed to grow in January
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BlogsScottish waiting times still worsening
Waiting times are getting worse in Scotland, but you wouldn’t know it from the government’s press release.
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BlogsCQC to improve referral to treatment monitoring
The CQC are improving their 18-weeks monitoring. It still isn’t perfect, but that may not be entirely their fault.
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BlogsSandbags, dredging and waiting times forecasts
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency’s management of flood risk?
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Your 18 week waits: December 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
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And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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BlogsWaiting times: safe, fair, short, efficient
The Northern Ireland Assembly asked for some advice on waiting times policy. So I had a grand day out in Belfast, and this is what I suggested.
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The NAO report on NHS waiting times for elective care in England
The NAO have done a good report on waiting times. This is an opportunity to simplify the targets, make better use of Choose & Book, and knuckle down to the hard job of getting the record-keeping right.
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Contract planning, or last minute scramble?
Last minute deals, plans that nobody believes in… does the annual contracting round have to be like this?
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Your 18 week waits: November 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one year waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
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18 week waits still holding
The NHS held steady on 18 weeks with an increase in admissions, despite signs of increased pressure on waiting times.