NHS England
- The Clinical Review of NHS Access Standards Interim Report, published in March 2019, sets out the initial proposals for testing changes to access standards in mental health services, cancer care, elective care and urgent and emergency care.
- Field testing around Urgent and emergency care targets started in May 2019. Work on the (routine) elective care proposals starts across 12 hospitals during August, testing the use of an average (mean) wait measure for people on the waiting list as a potential alternative to a threshold target, currently set at 18-weeks, to see whether keeping the focus on patients at all stages of their pathway can help to reduce long waits.
