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The hospital is a pioneer of seven-day working. Weekend work began with surgeons carrying out waiting list initiatives to deal with the problem of access times for the NHS. Researchers at the Dr Foster Intelligence Unit at Imperial College London looked at more than 4 million elective procedures across the UK in 2008-11. They found that the ...
Sarah Muirhead-Allwood (FRCS) (born 1947), is a British orthopaedic surgeon known for performing complex hip resurfacings and unusual hip replacements. Those she has operated on include The Queen Mother and Andy Murray. In 2002 she founded the London Hip Unit, to provide adults with hip problems a range of supportive services.
In 2016, Norman Sharp, a 91-year-old British man, was recognised as having the world's oldest hip replacement implants. The two vitallium implants had been implanted at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in November 1948.
An estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of March, relating to 6.29 million patients. NHS waiting list for treatment remains ‘stubbornly high’ – experts ...
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 waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has fallen for the fifth month in a row, new figures have revealed. An estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out ...
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 ...
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. NHS waiting list at record high but hospitals ...