ArticleFuture healthcare journal2025
The NHS waiting list in England must halve to reach waiting time targets.
Article in Future healthcare journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Abstract
It is a constitutional requirement in England's NHS that 92% of patients awaiting consultant-led elective treatment must be waiting no longer than 18 weeks. This target was last met in November 2015. Since then, waiting times have lengthened, with only 58.9% of the 7.5 million who were waiting at year-end 2024 waiting under 18 weeks. The government has pledged to restore the 92% standard by 2029 - the end of the current parliament. While it is known that the waiting list must reduce, the size that it must reduce to has not before been formally investigated. Leveraging a recently published mathematical framework for modelling NHS waiting lists, we find that the waiting list must be more than halved to 3.4 million to reach the 92% standard. Furthermore, we reveal the unequal distribution of this challenge, with different regions and specialties requiring disproportionately more or less resources than others to reach their required waiting list targets.
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