All Waiting lists articles – Page 8
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HSJ PartnersHow trusts are tackling elective recovery with powerful digital population health and waiting list tools
Dr Rang explains how using a population health management platform and waiting list dashboard, integrated with the patient-level primary care record, is enabling clinicians at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust to see more patients in a timely manner
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HSJ LocalICB pauses referrals to service as expansion is ‘unaffordable’
A mental health trust has stopped accepting ADHD referrals for many adults, after integrated care board chiefs warned it was “unaffordable” to expand the service due to financial pressures, HSJ understands.
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NewsMapped: 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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CommentLabour’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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NewsExclusive: NHSE leak reveals GP ‘work to rule’ could cost £570m in four months
GPs’ “collective action” could cost over half a billion pounds and lead to around half a million additional elective referrals over four months, according to NHS England’s internal modelling.
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CommentWhy a focus on waiting time targets may neglect the poorest cancer patients
Naser Turabi explains how ensuring equitable access to cancer treatment is crucial.
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NewsMapped: 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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CommentWait list and wait times worsened again in May
A worsening situation in the penultimate waiting times data for the outgoing Conservative government
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Streeting’s first days
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsLong waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
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NewsTrust to take on 2,500 long-waiters after buying private hospital
A trust that recently bought a small private hospital is to take on 2,500 long-waiters from across its integrated care system.
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HSJ LocalTroubled ICS diverting 400 electives each week under new model
One of England’s most challenged systems is diverting around 400 patients a week, mostly long waiters, away from its largest trust towards private hospitals and neighbouring NHS providers, after setting up a new “coordination centre”.
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NewsIncome soars at backlog catch-up firms
Two private companies offering outsourced NHS assessments for ADHD and autism have seen huge increases in income, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust’s private income up 44% in a year
A specialist hospital trust recorded its highest ever income from private patients last year, with a 44 per cent rise in a year, its latest annual accounts reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Labour’s £6bn social care questions
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsTrusts plead for national help with surge in long waiters
The number of children waiting more than a year for community services has risen by a third in two months – mostly driven by referrals for neurological disorders – causing trusts to plead for national intervention.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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CommentWait list and longest waits all worsen in last figures before election
The waiting list has grown since Rishi Sunak pledged it would fall, but his promise people would get care quicker has come true
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How NHSE may seek to incentivise more community care
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentStreeting should empower ICSs, not undermine them
Wes Streeting risks undermining integrated care systems, and Labour’s own promise not to restructure the NHS, if he seeks to manage elective recovery directly via trusts, says NHS Confederation CEO Matthew Taylor