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The government will not meet its ambition of getting NHS waiting times down to 18 weeks without investing in primary care, children’s services and mental health, NHS leaders have warned.
The NHS and private sector will focus on working together in areas where the health service has significant wait times, particularly in gynaecology where 260,000 women are waiting more than 18 ...
The number of patients waiting for NHS community services hit more than one million in August and a new analysis has revealed one in five of those patients are children. That was up from 940,000 ...
Sir Keir Starmer also promised to give patients more choice over where they get treated as he unveiled plans to tackle the NHS backlog. The waiting list currently stands at 7.5 million with four ...
A funding boost for the NHS will help get waiting lists back to a maximum of 18 weeks, the Chancellor has said. Rachel Reeves said a £22.6 billion increase in the day-to-day health budget was a ...
British citizens have been known to travel to other European countries to take advantage of lower costs, and because of a fear of hospital-acquired super bugs and long waiting lists. [5] NHS access is therefore controlled by medical priority rather than price mechanism, leading to waiting lists for both consultations and surgery, up to months ...
Figures come as NHS and goverment agree to reduce targets to tackle waiting list as care backlog spirals
Prof David Loughton, of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, said the patient backlog is at a ‘very, very high level’. Clearing NHS waiting lists caused by pandemic will take years, warns trust boss