Patient waiting times

The time it takes for a patient to be seen or treated by a particular service or health practitioner is often used, alongside other metrics, as one measure of quality of care. Different teams and organisation across the health and social care sector are responsible for achieving different waiting times targets. However, patient waiting times across those different services often correlate, and improvements to waiting times in one service are often related to, or dependent on, improvements to waiting times in other service.

Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - February 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news