INFORMED-AI Hub’s Post

📢 New research alert: The NHS elective waiting list in England must be halved to meet the 18-week treatment target. A new modelling study by Hub academic Neil Walton and colleagues Richard M. Wood, Sebastian S. Fox, Lucy E. Morgan, (published in Future Healthcare Journal) finds that the current list of 7.5 million patients must fall to 3.4 million to restore the NHS constitutional standards. 📈 The work undertaken by these researchers is a vital contribution to understanding the scale of the elective care backlog and the policy, workforce, and operational changes needed to address it. 🔗 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dmFrz5Ek EPSRC NHS England Durham University Business School #HealthcarePolicy #ElectiveCare #WaitingTimes #HealthInequality #FutureHealthcare #HealthModelling