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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.
A Welsh health board may ask the NHS in England to delay the care it gives to patients living in Wales to save money. It means hospital waiting times could be extended by up to 11 weeks or longer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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The number of appointments where people waited four weeks or longer for a GP last year rose by 38% on 2022’s figures to 17.6 million.
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 ...