Waiting list statistics. I: Relation between admissions from waiting list and length of waiting list.

Simulating waiting list management.

Patients' experiences of waiting for treatment have changed dramatically in recent years in the United Kingdom's National Health Service. There has been a substantial reduction in the mean wait but the characteristics of the distributions have also changed significantly, implying a change in priorities and waiting list management. Simulations are often used to assess proposals for investment an...

Waiting-list buster.

THE GOVERNMENTS new initiative to cut hospital waiting lists is too simplistic and underfunded to be effective, nurses have warned.

DHSS waiting list statistics--a major deception?

It has been suggested recently that the Department of Health and Social Security's instructions for collecting National Health Service waiting list statistics in England and Wales' contain anomalies as a result of the exclusion of several categories of patients awaiting surgery.2 The aim of this study was to quantify the anomalies in one district general hospital and to assess their effect in d...

Ending waiting-list mismanagement: principles and practice.

Waiting list and waiting time statistics in Britain: a critical review.

OBJECTIVES The measurement of access to health care in the National Health Service is dominated by waiting list and waiting time targets which depend on the collection and publication of a range of government statistics. The aim of this study was to describe the purposes for which waiting statistics are collected, and the different methods of data collection in the countries of Britain, in orde...