All Waiting lists articles – Page 34
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NewsVirtual workers predicted to save FT £2.1m in first year
Intelligent automation has saved a foundation trust 27,000 hours of staff time since it was launched in July last year.
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CommentAnalysis: Managing to the RTT target
In an ideal world, NHS hospitals would manage their elective waiting lists according to the needs of patients. Clinically urgent patients would be treated quickly, and routine patients would be treated on a first come, first served basis within a reasonable time. But the world is not ideal, explains Rob ...
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NewsWhat would an 8.5 weeks average elective target look like?
Referral-to-treatment waiting times are under review, and average (mean) waiting times are being trialled as a possible replacement for the current “92 per cent within 18 weeks” target.
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NewsFlagship waiting time target ‘expected’ to be relaxed
Bosses at a trust trialling new access targets “expect” the existing 18-week referral to treatment requirement to be replaced by an 8.5 week average wait — a move experts say would represent a relaxation of standards.
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HSJ LocalTrust takes ‘drastic’ step to cancel electives over winter
An acute trust has taken the “drastic” step of halting some planned surgery activity for a period of four months, as it bids to free up capacity for emergency care.
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NewsNew triage process helps struggling service cut waiting list by 30pc
An overhaul in the pathway for a flagship mental health service in Birmingham has led to a 30 per cent decrease in its waiting list since June.
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NewsTrust predicts 10pc deficit for at least next four years
One of England’s smallest trusts is facing a £7m annual deficit — roughly 10 per cent of its turnover — for at least the next four years, and is struggling to access sustainability funding.
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CommentBiggest ever waiting list as general election looms
The best way for the next government to reduce waiting times will be steadily and patiently, by keeping up with demand. Not with a blitz of waiting list initiatives.
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NewsExclusive: Labour will be ‘pragmatic’ on private outsourcing
Labour’s prospective health secretary says he will be a “pragmatist” when it comes to routine NHS operations being outsourced to private hospitals.
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NewsExclusive: Three patients died after radiology failings at teaching hospital
Radiology failings at a teaching hospital led to eight patients coming to severe harm, with three dying, a hospital trust has admitted.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Connecting services and information award
WINNER: South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group – A platform for telling your story once
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NewsPensions crisis and staff shortages trigger record low cancer performance
A shortage of radiologists, pensions issues and rising demand have driven the worst breast cancer wait times for at least nine years, some of the worst performing trusts told HSJ.
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CommentGP waiting times: learning from the past
Tim Gardner on setting new GP waiting time targets, and the pitfalls of applying a narrowly-focussed solution to ‘fix’ a complex issue
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NewsEx-DH boss declares ‘scandal’ in mental healthcare
A shortage of beds for mental health patients – leaving them waiting in emergency departments for more than 12 hours – is a national “scandal”, according to one of the NHS’ most senior and experienced leaders.
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CommentThere is still much to do to defeat Britain's biggest cancer killer
The complex diagnosing and treatment of lung cancer needs the reins of policy tightening. By David Baldwin
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HSJ InteractiveHow to transform outpatient care
Innovative approaches are needed to efficiently deliver the main functions of outpatient care, write Ben Horner and Rishi Das-Gupta
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NewsUpdate: 24 patients come to harm after waiting list failings
A teaching hospital has discovered more than 630 patients which it failed to follow up “as a result of a high turnover of locums and failure of a trust process”.
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CommentThe NHS needs a chief psychological professions officer
Dr Nick Waggett and Sarb Bajwa join leaders representing 12 psychological professional groups and service users of psychological services to call for a new role of chief psychological professions officer
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HSJ LocalPensions crisis blamed for trust’s worst-ever breast cancer waits
Pension problems and staff shortages have caused cancer waits to surge at a West Midlands trust.
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NewsRegulator warns of ‘extraordinary’ winter for A&Es
A failure to provide the right models of care is forcing thousands more people to attend emergency departments each day, the Care Quality Commission has said, while warning of a “perfect storm” for the health service this winter.