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Currently, the waiting list stands at 7.6 million, with the latest figures showing some 282,664 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end ...
Figures published by NHS England in December showed an estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of October, down from 7.57 million at the end of September and ...
NHS targets are performance measures used by NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the Health and Social Care service in Northern Ireland.These vary by country but assess the performance of each health service against measures such as 4 hour waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments, weeks to receive an appointment and/or treatment, and performance in specific departments such as ...
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “We know the NHS faces a challenging winter, which is why we’re working at speed to cut waiting times, boost capacity and ensure ...
In May 2022 waiting times for outpatient appointments, hospital procedures, emergency care, GPs and community health services reached record levels. Tom Black chair of the British Medical Association Northern Ireland said the crisis boiled down to "workload and workforce" issues. Nearly one-in-five of the total population were on hospital ...
In 2019 it was forced to outsource 125 general surgeries to Spire Healthcare and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust because there were 118 patients waiting more than a year for treatment and it could not meet the national waiting times target that 92% of patients should wait no more than 18 weeks. [18]
The NHS waiting list in England has hit a new record high, with almost 7.8 million people waiting for treatment, data shows.. An estimated 7.75 million people were waiting to start treatment at ...
The Department of Health claims stated that by concentrating on a set type of procedures they are able to streamline the patient care pathway, [5] resulting in an improved patient experience [6] and help the NHS to quickly meet waiting time targets; [7] however, the majority of independent research conducted to date has contradicted these claims.