Objective In 2012, an '18-week referral to treatment standard' was introduced in England. Among people on the list of those waiting for hospital treatment at a point in time, the standard states that at least '92% of patients should have been waiting for less than 18 weeks'. Targets can...
3. The UCR service has open lines of communication into its locally operating QSF-certified TEC responder services, which limit the amount of rejected referrals due to capacity limitations. 4. Training on appropriate referral reasons is available to local QSF-certified TEC responder services, with...
In addition, the proportion of patients in England waiting longer than 62 days in November from an urgent suspected cancer referral or consultant upgrade to their first definitive treatment for cancer was 65.2%. Junior doctors in England recently held the longest strike in NHS history, taking to ...
The example of CQC’s dire handling of an FPPR referral on Paula Vennells controversial former Post Office chief executive, who became the Chair of Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust is summarised. The regulator failed to act in a timely manner and then simply shut the referral down after Vennells...
patient who is aged below 16 years and who has been receiving puberty blockers as a response to a referral by the Gender Identity Development Service to an endocrine clinic…" The senior assessor must make application to the court if they decide the child should continue to receive hormone ...
In the UK, the national clinical guidelines for stroke and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance endorses thrombectomy as an acute stroke treatment, and NHS England commissioned thrombectomy services. However, there are no UK ‘real-world’ data to verify the efficacy of the ...
There was no consensus as to where CHs sit in the continuum of care. They appeared to function both as a location to which patients requiring less intensive treatment could be discharged from acute care, prior to returning to the community; or as a site whereby more intensive care or respite...
From these, a treatment plan was developed, which could be adjusted each week depending on the patient’s response to treatment. Patients received treatment primarily for their low back pain. Self-management groups The self-management course comprised group sessions structured to provide on-going ...
The first concerted attempt to make smoking cessation a core function of the NHS in England was launched last week by the public health minister, Tessa Jowell. She has instructed health authorities … 关键词: SMOKING PREVENTIONGREAT Britain. National Health Service DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7191.1096b...