Sentence examples for waiting target from inspiring English sources

And the waiting target for elective procedures has been abandoned.

So life in an emergency department, since the introduction of the four- hour waiting target, has improved enormously.

The hospital waiting target move is more relevant to managers than patients.

And the NHS, according to the report, has consistently achieved a 31-day waiting target for cancer treatment for patients referred to hospital for reasons other than suspected cancer.

The four-hour waiting target, which states that 95% of patients should be treated, discharged or admitted within four hours of arriving in A&E, was breached at all NHS hospital emergency units in Northern Ireland.

One surgeon saw and diagnosed a cancer within a week but was told by hospital management that the target was 62 days and the cancer surgery had to be delayed so that the operating time could be devoted to sterilisation procedures because these women risked breeching the national 19-week waiting target.

Bowles says he left his job in 2009 after being threatened with suspension when he refused to commit his organisation to meeting national waiting targets.

Theresa May has said there is no more money: the NHS must save £22bn by 2020, despite three quarters of trusts being up to their ears in debt and missing waiting targets by miles.

"Reduced patient contact times, assessments carried out by 'cheaper' colleagues and fabrication of 'face-to-face' contact to meet waiting targets" were some of the consequences highlighted by one respondent.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Prior called for greater input from the private sector, the merging of hospitals and changes to the way the NHS is held to account – particularly, the scrapping of waiting targets.

"We need the government to change the way it holds the NHS to account: an end to trusts being blindsided by waiting targets that miss the point, skew priorities and have unintended consequences.