Waiting List Initiatives: Crisis Management or Targeting of Resources?

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.

Capacity planning for waiting list management at the Radiology department

Audit of an ophthalmology waiting list.

The hospital case notes of 209 (98%) of the 213 patients placed on an adult ophthalmic surgical waiting list between mid 1984 and mid 1985 were reviewed. Information on referral sources, previous eye surgery, outpatient visits, and treatment up to the end of 1987 was recorded. The vital status of patients up to the end of 1988 was also ascertained. Waiting list patients (123 women, 86 men) were...

Ending waiting-list mismanagement: principles and practice.