The second half of a major 'waiting list validation' exercise kept England's waiting list reductions on track in May,...
Validations keep wait list recovery on track
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Elective recovery on track after validation boost
The English NHS cut its referral-to-treatment (RTT) elective waiting list by 32,000 patient pathways in April, beating...
Tracking progress towards ’18 weeks’
In June 2025 I introduced a progress chart, like the one below, into my monthly referral-to-treatment (RTT) waiting...
Wait list grows for first time in seven months
The English waiting list grew in March for the first time since August 2024. This is the typical seasonal pattern when...
Wait list falls for sixth consecutive month, but too slowly
NHS England are understandably keen to tell the world that "the overall waiting list fell for the sixth month in a row...
Wait list reduction remains sluggish
Efforts to reduce the size of the English referral-to-treatment (RTT) waiting list remained sluggish in January, with...
Elective reform still stalled in December
According to the latest referral-to-treatment (RTT) waiting times figures for England, elective reform remained...
Elective recovery loses more momentum
The pace of England's elective recovery slowed again in November. On the reported figures, the waiting list reduced...
Accelerating elective recovery takes a pause
The shift from a rapidly growing waiting list, to a rapidly shrinking one, failed to gather speed in October for the...