A decade of failure to uphold NHS patients’ rights to timely care – New research by the Nuffield Trust shows that nine of the eleven waiting time targets set out in the health service’s contract with patients are currently not being met. Analysis by the Nuffield Trust reveals that nine of the eleven waiting time targets set out in the health service’s contract with patients [1] are currently not being met. The think tank says the recovery plans set out by campaigning parties in this election are extremely ambitious but currently not based on calculations of whether the NHS can actually deliver enough care to meet them within its budget.
According to a new briefing, the last time a majority (6 out of the then 10) targets were met was in 2015, and the NHS has never met all eleven at the same time, even counting previous similar targets. The analysis also highlights a systematic inequality where people in poorer areas get worse access to planned care than richer counterparts – for example, the most deprived tenth receive 20% fewer hip replacements than the English average.
The authors say that the relentless focus on unachievable targets without the money, capacity and efficiency to meet them has been a distraction from delivering on policies which could offer meaningful improvements in how quickly people get treated in England, such as building up out of hospital services and sustainable funding for buildings and equipment……… read on and be shocked by the ineptitude of a government that never cared…
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