„Großer Moment“, da das Gesundheitswesen das 18-Wochen-Ziel erreicht, obwohl die Warteliste um eine halbe Million gesunken ist
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2026/05/health-service-hits-18-week-target-amid-half-million-waiting-list-drop/
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This is great news! I’ve actually recently had some really top and quick service from the NHS, it’s really starting to find its feet again.
God can’t wait till labour are gone messing up our NHS. Waiting in line is a crucial part of our culture. And these ghouls want to rob us of it to save some lives. Woke nonsense.
Considering how much the NHS has been improving, why does everyone hate Streeting so much? Is it just because of the Mandelson connection?
Shame that Farage is going to win the next GE and privatise it.
I’m sure I’ll find this being joyfully reported in the Telegraph, Times, Express and Mail. Any minute now!
Can’t wait to see the mainstream media not reporting on this
Can’t wait for Labour & the media to stuff this one under the carpet to make sure as few people as possible see this information and instead launch some pointlessly unpopular policy that drags Labour through the mud for weeks before U-turning on it anyway
Just need to fix GP surgeries now. They need a mandate to stop referring people to A&E for everything.
Really pleased with my recent trips to both hospitals and GPs in my local area. It was rough during COVID, but definitely a recently noticeable improvement in care personally speaking.
Starmer out now, how long do we have to keep putting up with these improvements to ar cuntry
No this can’t be right. Did I just click a news story and instead of the usual psychic glass of vodka and glass shards chucked in my face it’s good fucking news?
A man could weep.
Once again Labour actually being pretty good a running the country is completely ignored by our oligarch owned press
Why would Starmer do this? Surely now he must resign
Honestly I’ve had some really good NHS experiences in the last two years.
Last year both my parents had NHS cataract operations on both eyes. Their average wait was literally three weeks (!)
My dad needs a knee replacement. He thought he would be on the waiting list for 2 years so started doing the physio exercises so when he’s in desperate need he would be nearer the top. The doctor told him the average waiting list in our area was six months.
My daughter has had grommets twice (second time last year). Their hospital wait was four weeks and even then we couldn’t have had it done sooner, we just decided to wait for the school hols.
Our local GP has a good online triage service – you fill in a form, the doctor looks at it and decides if you need an appointment and books you in for same day. I’ve never not been able to get a same day appointment.
I understand there are huge variations in NHS treatment and I’m not discounting that at all. But locally, our personal experience is the NHS is bloody brilliant and seems to be getting fixed.
Meanwhile in Northern Ireland im told I wont receive treatment on NHS in this decade….
Only if you ignore the waiting lists that are longer than 18 weeks, like the estimated 16 years to be seen at the Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Clinic (which is fairly average).
And the reduction was achieved by removing people and refusing to refer people more than by treating people.
The BBC website is a complete clownshow today. Articles like the above, and that GDP grew more than expected this quarter, jostling for position with articles about potential Labour leadership battles!
Well the immigration waiting list has been halved too almost as if Starmer is entirely competent at his job imagine the shock
this is so frustrating to hear while 32 weeks into ‘an average of 23 weeks’ waitlist :/
Needed treatment for the first time in a couple of years yesterday. I filled in a form on the app, called back by my GP five minutes later and had an appointment in the afternoon. He gave me forms to get bloods taken and got an appointment at a nearby hospital to do so this morning. Was told should have results in two days.
I know that this isn’t everyone’s experience, but was very smooth so far for me.
Unless you’re trans. Then your waiting lists are longer than ever. Up to a decade long.
Good.
If only labour werent filled with opportunists and had a capable comms team
It’s pretty easy to make it hit any target when you pay hospitals to remove people from the list.
This is reported every few months, each time analysts always discover it was because they literally went through and removed patients
H>ospitals receive £33 for every patient taken off backlogs in this way.
>Sarah Scobie, the deputy director of research at the Nuffield Trust think tank, told The Telegraph: “The sporadic improvements we see are not all about the NHS delivering more care.
>“There was another uptick in ‘unreported removals’ from the waiting list in January, which includes tidying up the data as much as possible by removing patients who don’t need to be on there any more.”
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>Other removals include those who died because of a lack of treatment, and people who failed to respond to text messages.
This is stuff kier and labour need to shout about
And it’s barely a whimper
No wonder people think they’ve done fuck all
What is the current waiting list? Is half a million drop good? Still impossible to see a GP where I live unfortunately
Wait times have been reduced by removing more patients from the list not treating patients quicker.
The government is slowly down the speed GP makes referrals to further manipulate the system.
I’ve personally been taken off the list and put back on again which statistically is an improvement.
It’s the next big shit hits the fan scandal when someone important dies because of it.
Evidence: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1753
That’s because they were waiting so long they died
Good on Labour ofc, also let’s not forget the growing private healthcare sector has 100% helped this
Well Done to all the staff who have made this happen
I’ve been waiting for hernia surgery for exactly 1 year and 1 week.
I’ve not been seen by anyone other than my GP, who sent off the letter requesting sugery 51 weeks ago.
Last week I got a text asking if I still wanted the surgery, this was the first time the hospital had messaged me at all.
So no, no they have not.
I’ll wait till Private Eye report on this. All too often there is a lot of number massaging going on or recategorisation of patients waiting on lists.
No tHaNkS tO StArMeR!!! Carnt weight til Nige gets rid of the nhs compleetly!
Don’t worry , it will be dead soon once Farage is in . That’s what the British people want innit ..
Knowing a small amount about this data base, I wonder how many of these are ‘consolidation ’ but also how many are just removing dead people from the list.
I got my sinus surgery bang on 18 week mark from my referral i was really happy with the time frame and the ease of it all!
Yes because they’re not sending people to specialists anymore. They said a while ago that GPs will reduce referrals and instead ask specialists for their opinions on patients from GP observations, rather than sending the patient for a thorough specialist examination. They’ve put patients at risk to reduce numbers and are showing it as a success.
Shame outcomes havent improved. Getting a bad outcome faster is not an improvement.
Fantastic news.
Massive congratulations to the NHS, their tireless teams and labour for their effort!
They are doing what they did with Royal Mail.
Outsourcing the easy workloads to the private sector. £2.5b was spent on outsourcing NHS cases to the private sector. The casework they outsource is cherrypicked to be the least complex. This has two effects, makes the private sector look more efficient, and the NHS look bad.
With Royal Mail, they outsourced postal for metropolitan areas to Whistle. This was the easy profitable stuff. Lots of post in a small geographical area.
Meanwhile Royal mail have to deliver to the outer Hebrides for the cost of a first class stamp. Making them look bad and driving the argument for privatisation.
This is how they will privatise the NHS, by leaving all the shit/expensive caseloads with the NHS and making the private sector look super efficient.
What a massive blow this must be to Rachel Reeves, or another reason to challenge Kier Starmer’s leadership somehow, somewhere, to someone 🤔
Family members have had a dramatic uptick in the speed and quality of GP services lately.
The changes are being noticed