All Waiting lists articles – Page 17
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NewsExclusive: Three-month cancer waits top 10,000
More than 10,000 people are waiting three months or longer following a referral for suspected cancer, internal NHS data seen by HSJ reveals.
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LeaderThe stubbornness of covid leaves the NHS with brutal choices to make
In the last six months of 2021, just over 5,000 people who tested positive for covid were admitted to English hospitals each week on average.
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NewsExclusive: Drive to reduce hospital waiting lists endangered as trusts struggle to raise activity
Elective activity levels are still significantly below those achieved before the pandemic, despite the high profile and government-led drive to recover services.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The city with one in eight on a waiting list
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe growth of virtual wards needs to be driven by outcomes – not targets
Robert Harris* outlines seven essential factors to ensure the success of virtual wards and thus enable a system-wide reduction in hospital care.
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HSJ PartnersHow can the NHS best manage complex hospital discharges?
Bruce Horne, product specialist at Orion Health UK, considers how better information sharing and care planning could support the more effective management of hospital discharges
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NewsHuge variation in referrals to flagship ‘urgent response’ service
Groundbreaking new data on community services appears to show enormous variation between areas in the number of referrals for a ‘two-hour urgent response’ being recorded.
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HSJ PartnersHow can the NHS best manage waiting times for colonoscopy: watch the video
Ed Seward, consultant gastroenterologist and director of endoscopy at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust, considers how the NHS might best manage waiting times for colonoscopy
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentElective waiting times worsen in April
The number of 104 week waiters improved, but overall things are getting worse with elective waits.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief: Manager ‘bootcamps’ helped eliminate two-year waiters
The chief executive of one of the first teaching trusts in the country to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care has said there is ‘no magic to it’ and it can be replicated elsewhere.
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CommentThe Netflix health secretary
Sajid Javid believes no one should need to leave home to binge-watch the NHS. In this exclusive extract from his diary, obtained by Julian Patterson, he explains why
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NewsCEOs of covid-ravaged trusts call for more action on shared waiting lists
Coordination of waiting lists and elective treatment across health systems and regions should be ‘far more systematic’, and could have happened earlier, chief executives of some of the hardest hit trusts have told HSJ.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS move from waiting lists to preparation lists?
Shared decision making and regular communication throughout a patient’s surgery pathway would, a recent HSJ webinar argued, help the NHS move from the concept of waiting lists to one of preparation lists – and to a better way of dealing with the backlog. Claire Read reports
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Expert BriefingThe four trusts with worrying waiting lists
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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NewsMajor trust reports huge jump in two-year waiters, against national reduction
A large NHS trust has reported a huge jump in patients waiting more than two years for elective treatment, bucking the national trend which shows numbers reducing.
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CommentTo tackle long covid, enhance support to GPs
With an estimated 1.5 million people living with long covid in the UK, Louise Ansari calls for better support for GPs in recognising and managing the condition
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CommentHow providers are delivering on tackling backlogs
Trusts are implementing a wide range of innovative solutions to tackle the elective care backlog, as Ella Fuller explains
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NewsCancer recovery target will be missed, says national leader
The NHS will miss its target to return cancer treatment waits to pre-covid levels by next March, a national cancer leader has said.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.