NHS Choices publishes 18-week wait data

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16 Apr 2008

The Department of Health is making 18-week referral to treatment times available to patients on the NHS Choices website.

Patients can use the DH’s flagship website to see the percentage of admitted patients treated within 18 weeks from referral, and the number of weeks from which half of admitted patients started treatment from their referral.

Nick Chapman, national director of 18-week waits, said the information currently on the website is based on data from the three months spanning October to December 2007, and will be updated on a three monthly rolling period.

If there is data for less than 20 patients over the three month period, the information will not be shown.

The ‘Compare Hospitals’ section of the site also enables patients to see average length of stay, readmission rates, number of procedures performed per year and MRSA rates. NHS Choices hopes to develop the hospital scorecards by attracting more feedback from patients for the patient ratings section and publishing additional data such as C difficile rates as well as more information on clinical outcomes.

Fiona Barr

Reader's Comments

Brilliant and only 2 years late

chris.wheatley2@nhs.net

23 Apr 08 09:04

We were promised this service 2 years ago, it did run a 'fixed report' service a year ago, which vanished without trace.

Mind the Choice aspect of Choose and Book was promised 2 years ago as well and the 12 April CAB release 4 has failed to arrive -how many more years before it actually works?

When i say works -I am thinging of Cerners millennium product integraption too -starngely published by the same authros of CAB, which is also a couple years past its due date.

Hint: it was called Millennium at the time for a reason.....

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