Great thread by @charlestallack.bsky.social unpicking why the “4.6 million extra NHS appointments” championed by the prime minister & health secretary have only had a “modest impact” on reducing waiting list clock stops

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The benefits to Local Authorities of supporting their local parkrun. My latest ramblings in The MJ...

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I'm so going to steal that phrase "dips a smidge" next time I need to point out a small decrease on a graph!

NEW NHS DATA: NHS performance on main waiting list target (improving % waiting <18 weeks for treatment) stays flat at 59% between Nov & December (overall target 92% - but a 65% target to hit by March 2026).

Overall list dips a smidge from 7.48m to 7.46m cases

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*Important announcement for local NHS leaders & finance types* The amount of extra waiting list funding trusts can earn is to be capped in the remaining months of the financial year, @henryanderson1.bsky.social has learned £

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Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ £

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The last Labour government came under heavy criticism for its use Private Finance Initiatives, with examples of hospitals being charged £100s ton change a lightbulb.

But now many NHS leaders are desperate for it to return. Read my column to find out why...

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ICYMI, some of the @hsj.co.uk editorial folks are now here!

@hsjeditor.bsky.social
@davewwest.bsky.social
@jamesillman.bsky.social
@kituno.bsky.social

Do follow them, plus @events.hsj.co.uk for updates on our Summits, Forums, Awards, Webinars, and Congress.

Government must “move quickly” to address a lack of diversity in responses to its 10-year plan consultation, an adviser on the work has warned.
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Director of Policy, Hugh Alderwick welcomes a new independent commission on adult social care reform but notes the past three decades have seen the recommendations of many reports go unfulfilled, resulting in delays and broken promises.

Read more 👇
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Read our full response to today's announcement of a new social care commission and additional support measures for the sector 👇
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NHS England is set to commit to treating 65 per cent of elective patients within 18 weeks by next March, as a staging post to meeting the 92 per cent constitutional target by 2029, under plans to be unveiled next week.

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NHS England set to commit to new elective plan which @hsj.co.uk understands due next week.

NHSE to commit to treating 65% of elective patients within 18 weeks by next March, as staging post to hitting 92% target by 2029. At mo just 59%of patients treated in 18 wks. £
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The most pressing task facing NHS England and the service it oversees in the next three or four months will be to agree on a trust by trust, system by system financial and operational settlement that is both credible and acceptable to both parties and the government.
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