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The target for urgent cancer referrals within 28 days has been exceeded for the fourth month in a row. What the latest NHS performance figures for England show Skip to main content
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 ...
This has been an official NHS target for some time, but has not been met since 2015. Currently, only 59% of patients meet the 18-week target, with three million people waiting longer.
The key NHS performance indicators (18 weeks (RTT), 4 hours (A&E) and cancer (2 week wait) have not been achieved since February 2016, July 2015 and December 2015 respectively. [77] A ranking of individual hospitals around the world, published by Newsweek in March 2022, no NHS hospital was listed within the top 40.
The number of people waiting more than 52 weeks to start routine hospital treatment is the lowest since December 2020.
The NHS consultant also warned hospitals are being forced to consider a “retrograde” step of using clot-dissolving drugs used two decades ago because people are waiting so long.
NHS Gooroo is a website and company run by Rob Findlay which carries information about NHS performance, [1] particularly waiting lists and performance against NHS targets. [ 2 ] Findlay, who is based in Shrewsbury , formerly worked in the Treasury health expenditure team.
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