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In September 2024, there were around 6.3 million patients on the NHS waiting list in England. Among them over 3.1 million patients have been waiting over 18 weeks and almost 249,300 patients over 12 months. [157] The biggest waiting list of more than 850,000 people are in line for trauma and orthopaedic diagnosis and care. [160]
A Summary Care Record (SCR) is an electronic patient record, a summary of National Health Service patient data held on a central database covering England, part of the NHS National Programme for IT. The purpose of the database is to make patient data readily available anywhere that the patient seeks treatment, for example if they are staying ...
The NHS will potentially have a shortage of general practitioners. From 2015 to 2022, the number of GPs fell by 1,622 and some of those continuing to work have changed to work part-time. [57] In 2023, a report revealed that NHS staff had faced over incidents of 20,000 sexual misconduct from patients from 2017 to 2022 across 212 NHS Trusts.
The number of people waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment is down from 1.81 million in April to 1.73 million in May, a drop of nearly 83,000.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust is the one of the latest to declare critical incidents in Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal hospitals, taking the decision to discharge 140 patients ...
NHS numbers are the unique numbers allocated in a shared numbering scheme to registered users of the three public health services in England, Wales and the Isle of Man. It is the key to the identification of patients, especially in delivering safe care across provider organisations, and is required in all new software deployed within these National Health Services (NHS).
The NHS is free at the point of use for the patient though there are charges associated with eye tests, dental care, prescriptions, and many aspects of personal care. The NHS provides the major part of healthcare in England, including primary care, in-patient care, long-term healthcare, ophthalmology and dentistry.
GP2GP is an NHS Connecting for Health project in the United Kingdom. It enables GPs to transfer a patient's electronic medical record to another practice when the patient moves onto the list. [12] In General Practice in the UK the medical record has been computerized for many years; in fact, the UK is probably one of the world leaders in this ...