The longest waiting lists for planned NHS treatments fell by more than a quarter in February, according to the latest ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An NHS spokesperson said at the time the research ... and we are committed to working with the government to improve both waiting times and experience of care.” ...