1 October 2015

RTT guidance update removing provision for a patient pause

Recording and reporting referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times for consultant-led elective care - Guidance update
NHS England 1 October 2015
  • Refreshed RTT guidance which consolidates and simplifies the existing and published guidance and related advice.
  • The new guidance reflects changes around removing the provision for a patient pause. Delays resulting from patient choice will not affect a patient’s RTT ‘clock’, and there is no provision to report pauses or suspensions in RTT waiting time clocks in monthly RTT returns to NHS England.