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In gynaecology, there is currently a backlog of 260,000 women waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment, while in orthopaedics more than 40% of patients are waiting longer than the 18-week NHS ...
Labour says it wants to ensure 92 per cent of patients receive care within 18 weeks of referral within the next five years, and has pledged to deliver an extra 2 million NHS appointments a year to ...
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 ...
Figures published by NHS England in December showed an estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of October, down from 7.57 million at the end of September and ...
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 ...
In October 2018 it had to impose geographical limits on specialist paediatric referrals for dermatology and urology after a large increase in referrals from North London, Kent and Sussex made the waiting times unmanageable. [8] It made a contract with Johnson & Johnson in 2017 to open eight new operating theatres by 2020.
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.
Some complained of seeing more 'revolving door' patients and excess complexity of cases, while the NHS has acknowledged problems with waiting times and recovery rates. However Norman Lamb , who championed IAPT within the coalition government 2010-2015 , disagreed with picking faults with such an extensive and world-leading advance in evidence ...