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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 ...
Children are being ‘let down’ amid huge waiting lists health chiefs have warned
Round-up of campaign claims checked by Full Fact, including Green Party claims about NHS waiting lists and Conservative claims about debt.
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe, with one in every 25 adults in England working for the NHS. [46] As of February 2023, NHS England employed 1.4 million staff. [ 47 ] Nursing staff accounted for the largest cohort at more than 330,000 employees, followed by clinical support staff at 290,000, scientific and technical staff at 163,000 ...
NHS access is therefore controlled by medical priority rather than price mechanism, leading to waiting lists for both consultations and surgery, up to months long, although the Labour government of 1997-onwards made it one of its key targets to reduce waiting lists. In 1997, the waiting time for a non-urgent operation could be two years; there ...
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A 14 October 2008 article in The Daily Telegraph stated: "An NHS trust has spent more than £12,000 on private treatment for hospital staff because its waiting times are too long." [144] The NHS has been criticized in the past for funding homeopathic medicines, which are not supported by scientific research. £4 million of funding was given in ...
The health secretary’s NHS targets are expected to include reducing emergency department delays, cutting wait list times, improving access to GPs and dentists, and improving cancer care targets ...