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NHS waiting list finally starts to come down after backlog increased for over a decade
The NHS waiting list may have finally started to come down. The backlog of appointments fell by 70,000 last month in England raising hopes the NHS could see the first sustained drop outside of the ...
NHS waiting lists at lowest for 2 years as service may have 'turned the tide'
New NHS data for England shows 7.39 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of April, down from 7.42 ...
Desperate patients using unregulated ADHD services due to long NHS waiting lists
Desperate patients using unregulated ADHD services due to long NHS waiting lists - A study found NHS ADHD waiting lists are ...
Major boost to NHS as robotic surgery will slash stubbornly high waiting lists – but it’ll take a decade
ROBOTIC surgery will slash waiting lists in a decade, the head of the NHS will say today. NHS England estimates robotic ...
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Deaths on the NHS waiting list double in five years as critics slam ‘decade of underinvestment’ in health service
An estimated number of 120,000 people died last year while on the NHS waiting list for treatment ... impact on these figures – but we can’t get away from the fact that a decade of underinvestment in ...
London Evening Standard8mon
Damning graphs reveal how NHS performance has declined over a decade
A decade ago, just 3,248,315 patients were on the waiting list ... spending on the NHS grew by 6.7 per cent, which helped Tony Blair’s party to eliminate waits from over a year.
Labour plan to tackle NHS waiting lists in jeopardy over cost cutting
Labour's plan to tackle NHS waiting lists is at risk as private hospitals threaten to pull the plug over a funding dispute.
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NHS to slash waiting lists by sending patients straight to GPs for treatment
Millions of patients could see GPs as an alternative to hospital treatment under Labour's plans to slash waiting times.
NHS 'will miss Keir Starmer's waiting list target' despite Spending Review boost of up to £30billion
Internal Department for Health modelling reportedly shows the NHS is on course to hit only about 80% by the end of the ...
NHS to receive £6bn to provide millions more tests and procedures, Reeves confirms
Rachel Reeves has pledged a £6bn investment aimed at accelerating tests and treatments within the NHS, following substantial ...
Computer Weekly5mon
Revised NHS App key to tackling waiting list
Currently, most patients receive test results through a ... Change to drive a decade of national renewal. “By bringing our analogue NHS into the digital age, we will cut waiting times from ...