During the same month 10,384 patients waited 12 hours or more. This was 1,437 (16.1%) more than in the previous month. Miles ...

It is “unlikely” that the Government will achieve its ambition of getting NHS waiting times down to 18 weeks before the end of Parliament, according to new research. Analysis by the Institute ...

The initiative is expected to help patients receive timely care without the need to join lengthy NHS waiting lists.

The Government has set out plans with the support of an £80 million funding package to help tackle NHS waiting lists.

The NHS in England has hit a key cancer waiting time target for the first time, although charities have warned patients are still facing "unacceptable delays" when it comes to accessing care. It comes ...

The median waiting time can fluctuate from month to month, and is somewhat seasonal, because some months of the year are generally busier than others. NHS England data also shows us how many cases are ...

In addition to this, the graph appears to stitch together two separate datasets into the same line. The overall NHS waiting list fell for the sixth month running in February, new data from NHS England ...

The Government invested a record £26 billion in the health service in last year’s budget, to help it recover from the ...

Last year 700,000 outpatient appointments were missed and many tens of thousands of appointments are cancelled on the day ...

GPs will receive a £20 ‘bonus’ each time they avoid referring a patient directly to hospital under a scheme aimed at cutting NHS waiting lists. Ministers say the cash incentives - totalling ...