All Waiting lists articles – Page 22
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CommentPower is tilting back to Whitehall
The health and social care secretary is taking back control, says Richard Sloggett
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CommentWhy some people on elective waiting lists may never reach the front of the queue
If we don’t keep up with demand, some patients may never reach the front of the queue
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CommentGetting more hours from exhausted clinicians - the options
Andrew Taylor explains the pay and cost dilemmas facing NHS leaders, as they look to use additional cash to keep waiting lists in check.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The new pandemic
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsNHSE switches activity targets to reward ‘clock stops’
NHS England has lowered the elective activity target which trusts have to meet to win incentive payments from a £1bn fund.
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NewsTrusts must ‘stabilise’ waiting lists and eliminate two-year waiters by March
Trusts have been told to hold the line on elective performance, keeping year-plus waiters at current levels, and eliminate two-year waiters by the end of March.
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CommentTackling health inequalities must be a fundamental priority for the NHS
A new report on health inequalities sets out how a supportive policy framework will help the NHS address longstanding injustice, says Saffron Cordery
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NewsRegion aims to clear all two-year waiters by March
An NHS region is aiming to have no patients waiting more than two years on its waiting lists by the end of March.
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NewsFive new national directors appointed
Leading doctors from across the country have been appointed to five new clinical director roles to help advise the NHS medical director on post-covid challenges.
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CommentThe NHS is hiding delays to care for millions of patients
Covid has created an urgent need, and a unique opportunity, to get the true waiting list out in the open.
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NewsThree deaths and ‘severe harm’ at trust with treatment delays
At least three people died and more came to ‘severe harm’ after treatment delays across three specialties at one hospital trust, new reports have revealed.
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HSJ Local‘Severe pressures’ driving two-month waits for urgent scans
A trust in the Midlands has cited ‘severe pressures’ on its imaging department which mean patients are waiting more than two months for urgent scans that should normally happen within two weeks.
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CommentUp the game on diagnostics for greater cancer survival
Community diagnostic hubs would prove critical in advancing rapid diagnostic pathways for people with suspected cancer, bringing key diagnostic services together into community settings and closer to patients. By Michelle Mitchell
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NHS leaders ‘set for fight’ amid signs mental health will miss out on new funding
Mental health leaders are preparing for a “fight” over the new NHS funding announced by the government, with senior sources saying none of the new money has been earmarked for the sector.
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CommentService specialisation and digital technologies can offer real patient improvements
Carl Shoben and John Underwood write about a new poll on the NHS which points out the public’s top two priorities are tackling the waiting lists that have built up during covid and greater investment in the health service
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NewsNHS England appoints top trust chief to support elective recovery
Sir Jim Mackey has been brought in by NHS England to advise on elective recovery, it was announced today.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in July 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWaiting list soars past 5.6 million patients
The waiting list continues to grow rapidly as demand mostly recovers but activity cannot. By Rob Findlay
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NewsNHS England draws up first national inventory of medical staffing gaps
NHS England is analysing medical staffing gaps in all acute services across England, in what appears to be the first exercise of its kind, amid concerns staffing is holding back elective services recovery.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in June 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.