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Waiting Lists and Backlog Crisis
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Care Forgone During the Pandemic is Permanently Lost, and the Observed Rebound is Illusory [US context]
Trilliant HealthSanjula Jain, Ph.D.October 30, 2022 Chief Researcher and Editor: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.health transformation . portalOctober 31, 2022 Key messages:…
Health secretary sets up £500mn social care fund to boost NHS [including 7,000 extra beds , with 2,500 “virtual beds”]
Site editor: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.The Health Strategist — for continuous health transformationSeptember 23, 2022 Financial TimesSarah Neville and Josephine Cumbo…
New targets for GP appointments in plan to boost NHS performance [and the strategies to get there]
Site editor: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.The Health Strategist — JournalSeptember 22, 2022 Executive summary: What is the problem? an inability to secure…
Pandemic exposes sharp divide in European cancer treatment [insights from benchmarks]
Financial TimesSeptember 9, 2022 Site editor: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.Health Transformation JournalSeptember 9, 2022 Lotta Nilert was one of…
NHS backlog drives steep rise in self-pay healthcare — [39% increase in personally funded treatments across UK in past two years]
Personally funded treatments increase by 39% across UK in past two years as waiting lists spiral Even among UK…
Clearing the radiotherapy backlog: innovation to pave the way – every 4 weeks of delay causes 10% reduction in survival.
This is a republication of the paper “Clearing the radiotherapy backlog: innovation to pave the way”, with the…
53 mil cirurgias de câncer não foram realizadas no SUS durante a pandemia — [e 10 mil biópsias a menos]
Revista Medicina S/A30 de Agosto de 2022 Site editor: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.Health Transformation — Center of ExcellencePandemic Response UnitAugust 30,…
Waiting for NHS public hospital care: the role of the independent sector
The Health FoundationSebastien Peytrignet, Jay Hughes, Ellen Coughlan, Josh Keith, Tim Gardner, Charles Tallack28 July 2022 Key points:…
Hospital A.C. Camargo faz acordo com Governo de SP para manter atendimento no SUS
Há uma fila de mais de 3.000 pessoas no estado aguardando tratamento oncológico nos Cacons Folha de São PauloSTEFHANIE…
Referral levels for suspected cancer are as high as 120% of pre-pandemic levels — in the UK [What about other countries?]
Although, the total number of those who have started cancer treatment in England since the start of the…
