A target to start treatment within 18 weeks for most NHS patients in England will be hit within five years, Labour has promised. The party made the pledge as it set out details of how it would start making inroads into the backlog. This includes getting the NHS to do more out-of-hours, and making greater … Read more
A new poll by the Office for National Statistics suggests waits in England are worse than feared. Source link
The study by Endometriosis UK, which is based on a survey of 4,371 people who received a diagnosis of endometriosis, showed almost half of all respondents (47%) had visited their GP 10 or more times with symptoms prior to receiving a diagnosis, and 70% had visited five times or more. Source link
Social enterprises say hardworking front-line staff have not received one-off payments agreed last May. Source link
Patients are facing delays for ongoing cancer care, heart check-ups and eye treatment in England. Source link
Rishi Sunak concedes the government hasn’t made enough progress on one of his key pledges. Source link
A review of gynae services in NI finds that more than 37,000 women are on hospital waiting lists. Source link
People were mistakenly taken off waiting lists for operations such as knee and hip surgeries. Source link
