Health department to improve investigation of waiting list fiddles

Capacity planning for waiting list management at the Radiology department

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.

Health service costs for patients on the waiting list.

OBJECTIVE To find out if the cost of health services was artificially increased because of a delay in surgery due to a lack of resources. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING Three urban hospitals in Calgary, Alta. PATIENTS The study cohort comprised 4441 patients (1 index procedure for each patient). INTERVENTIONS Cholecystectomy, discectomy, hysterectomy, total knee and total ...

Local Health Department Collaborative Capacity to Improve Population Health.

Local health departments (LHDs) can more effectively develop and strengthen community health partnerships when leaders focus on building partnership collaborative capacity (PCC), including a multisector infrastructure for population health improvement. Using the 2008 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Profile survey, we constructed an overall measure of LHD PCC co...