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NHS waiting lists get longer
How is this possible when Cameron promised to maintain funding?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14111452
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14111452
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Day or up to 36 hr stay..using the short stay facilities proper ops up to large lumpectomies/hernias/VVs etc anything that can come in early saturday and be gone before close of play on sunday...proper lists consultant teams (although probably done by senior registrars) and paid for rather than suffer 18 week DTT breaches by taking these patients from the waiting population it shortens the waits for the other patients
rowan....so a registrar does the operating and i bet an anaesthetic registrar does the anaesthetising and they get paid extra......correct?
Remember, Birmingham is a teaching unit and not all hospitals have spare registrars, the Teaching hospitals getting fully staffed draining from the district hospitals.
Remember, Birmingham is a teaching unit and not all hospitals have spare registrars, the Teaching hospitals getting fully staffed draining from the district hospitals.
I feel Medical treatment should be on clinical priority decided my the patients clinicians ... not position on an 18 week pathway as set up by the previous government and still in force... I'd be really angry if a major op for a loved one was cancelled in favour of something less serious that was about to breach
The Consultants are not always happy for their Registrars to do lists in their absence, possibly due to the lack of generic cases on their lists. Registrars can't do joint replacements, for example. Yes, extra lists are possible. We have the POD (or T9 as it's sometimes called) which gets used for, say, carpal tunnel lists, but only when the fancy pants agree to fund it. For the majority of the time, it remains unused. If that theatre were used working day of the year, just think how many more cases we would get done.
<<Only British nationals, should be eligible for NHS treatment>>
When I visit my local hospital or GP I prefer not to have to step over all the sick and injured 'foreigners' lying on the pavement outside.
Or is there some alternative way of dealing with them?
BTW when i do visit medical facilities the vast majority of patients appear to be from the indigenous population - the 'immigrants' are generally the doctors, nurses and cleaning staff who are serving people.
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When I visit my local hospital or GP I prefer not to have to step over all the sick and injured 'foreigners' lying on the pavement outside.
Or is there some alternative way of dealing with them?
BTW when i do visit medical facilities the vast majority of patients appear to be from the indigenous population - the 'immigrants' are generally the doctors, nurses and cleaning staff who are serving people.
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18 week pathway, Sqad. We have 18 weeks from the date we receive the referral to admit and treat/operate on the patient. If a patient cancels two OP appointments or surgical dates, we can remove them from the list altogether and they would have to go back to the GP to be referred again, and the clock would be restarted from the beginning.
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