Elective Surgery Waiting List Disparities
40 items
1 source
Disparities in elective surgery waiting lists, particularly affecting women, and the lack of financial support for patients to travel.
Cross-Source Insight
Elective Surgery Waiting List Disparities has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
40 PFD reports
This theme has been identified in one data source. As more data is added, cross-references may emerge.
PFD Reports (40)
Geoffrey Gudgeon
Concerns: There is a significant capacity issue in Cornwall concerning the timely admission and treatment of stroke patients, leading to delays in accessing stroke units.
Response: The Trust has implemented a Stroke Bed Escalation Plan, increased Stroke Consultant availability, and rapid data reviews, which have led to improved admission times and inpatient stay percentages for stroke …
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Michael Moore
Concerns: Persistent NHS capacity constraints are causing significant and increasing delays in cancer referrals, diagnosis, and treatment, risking patient outcomes.
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Thomas Oldcorn
Concerns: Inadequate resources have led to significantly prolonged waiting times for cardiac surgery after angiography, consistently exceeding national targets and increasing to 17 days.
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Carla Smith
Concerns: Excessively long hospital waiting lists for urgent and routine referrals, coupled with a lack of patient monitoring, risk significant deterioration and loss of treatment options.
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Karen Dack
Concerns: Repeated last-minute surgery cancellations are occurring due to insufficient theatre capacity. Despite prioritization reviews, a lack of theatre expansion means this systemic issue risks future deaths.
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Junior Powell
Concerns: Significant hospital delays in patient review and admission, caused by staff shortages and social care discharge bottlenecks, led to a critical delay in definitive treatment for an aortic dissection, contributing to the patient's death.
Overdue
Sara Grinnell
Concerns: Extensive and repeated delays in urgent gynaecology appointments, relying only on written correspondence, resulted in a significant 24-month diagnostic delay. There were missed opportunities to escalate urgency upon re-referral.
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David Curry
Concerns: A critical surgery for an obstructed kidney was delayed by five months due to lack of NHS theatre capacity, increasing the patient's sepsis risk, leading to the patient seeking private care and subsequently dying from sepsis.
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Noura Hardy
Concerns: Excessively long national waiting lists for heart treatment, particularly for patients with weakened heart muscles due to long-term steroid use, pose a fatal risk despite local improvements.
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Lorraine Procter
Concerns: Significant national backlogs for cardiology appointments cause patients to wait over 40 weeks, delaying specialist input and increasing the risk of complications and death.
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James Cockburn
Concerns: National delays in cardiac appointments and diagnostic tests, exacerbated by staff shortages and incompatible inter-Trust IT systems, caused critical delays in treatment and assessment for life-saving surgery.
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Elizabeth Brown
Concerns: Significant national shortages of qualified immunology staff lead to prolonged patient waiting times and treatment delays, posing risks to patient health.
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Gregor Lynn
Concerns: A cost barrier in private healthcare discourages patients from crucial histological analysis of lesions, unlike NHS treatment where it's included, risking delayed cancer detection for those not meeting NHS referral criteria.
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Jasbir Pahal
Concerns: The hyper-acute stroke unit offers a thrombectomy service for only 20.8% of the week, denying patients crucial time-sensitive treatment based on their home address and time of stroke.
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Anthony Williams
Concerns: National shortages of specialist scanning facilities and delays in the two-week cancer pathway lead to delayed diagnoses and treatments, resulting in poorer patient outcomes and advanced disease.
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Kathleen Booth
Concerns: A significant delay in critical surgery was caused by NHS-wide understaffing, underfunding, and limited weekend cover, disadvantaging patients with injuries sustained on Fridays.
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Holly Mullan
Concerns: Significant and prolonged NHS waiting times for gastroenterology and gynaecology referrals post-Covid are causing distress, delaying diagnoses, and impeding crucial treatment for patients with severe conditions.
Responded
Douglas Nickols
Concerns: The hospital consistently fails to meet NICE guidelines for hip fracture surgery within the recommended timeframe, delaying early mobilisation and increasing patients' risk of complications like pneumonia.
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Ellen MacFarlane
Concerns: Critical ambulance delays are common due to high demand and staffing shortages. Additionally, weekend availability of cardiac tests at district general hospitals delays urgent surgery, contradicting best practice.
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Maureen Harrop
Concerns: Prolonged waits in the Emergency Department due to bed shortages and delays in essential surgery due to theatre capacity severely impacted the patient's physiological reserves and overall outcome.
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Irene Davies
Concerns: Extended surgery wait times due to COVID backlogs and severe ambulance availability issues led to significant delays in critical care, causing distress and impacting patient outcomes.
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Violet Howard
Concerns: There is a critical gap in dermatology commissioning for Royal Oldham Hospital inpatients, excluding those from outside the local area unless their skin condition becomes an emergency.
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Margaret Warwick
Concerns: Significant delays in a hip fracture patient's care were caused by a shortage of cardiologists, particularly during weekends, and further compounded by theatre capacity and High Dependency Unit bed shortages.
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James Curry
Concerns: Persistent bed shortages caused elderly hip fracture patients to endure lengthy Emergency Department waits, hindering timely orthogeriatric care and preventing surgery within NICE guideline timescales. This impacts patient outcomes and mortality.
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Kellum Thomas
Concerns: The patient lacked a cardiac monitoring device for 18 months due to a poor system for identifying battery end-of-life and excessively long replacement waiting lists. Additionally, crucial outpatient letters were significantly delayed.
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Brian Murphy
Concerns: Systemic delays in scheduling cardiology tests and subsequent patient referrals to specialists caused significant backlogs, hindering timely diagnosis and treatment.
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Shirley Nightingale
Concerns: No clear system existed for escalating or prioritizing urgent OGD procedures when capacity was an issue. Additionally, deviations from best practice timescales lacked documented rationale or senior clinician approval.
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Derek Weaver
Concerns: Capacity limitations due to a surge in referrals delayed critical surgery, leading to a higher chance of death due to sepsis. Insufficient resources and beds risk future preventable deaths.
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Charles Williamson
Concerns: A shortage of appropriate neuro-rehabilitation beds in Greater Manchester is preventing early effective rehabilitation, increasing the risk of complications and death.
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Thomas Curtin
Concerns: Private mental health locked rehabilitation units lack a national framework for referral response times, potentially leaving patients on inappropriate wards and risking their safety.
Responded
Kristina Cross
Concerns: Delayed surgical fixation of a traumatically fractured femur, caused by initial and subsequent misdiagnoses, led to post-operative complications and significantly contributed to the patient's death.
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Terrence George
Concerns: Most Trusts lacked local guidance for timely gallstone surgery post-pancreatitis despite international recommendations. Management did not prioritise this, indicating a need for national guidelines to ensure consistent, timely treatment.
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Patricia Donovan
Concerns: Surgery for a neck of femur fracture was delayed beyond NICE guidelines due to theatre staff and resource availability issues, despite the recognised risk of serious complications from prolonged waiting.
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Sarah Tyler
Concerns: Pervasive hospital admission delays due to insufficient beds were exacerbated by increased 'bed blocking' on weekends, stemming from reduced patient discharges. This systemic issue poses a significant risk to timely patient care.
Responded
Marina Fagan
Concerns: A nationwide shortage of neurologists leads to significant delays in accessing specialist care, including long outpatient waiting times and lack of out-of-hours neurological expertise in some hospitals.
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Sandra Wood
Concerns: The NHS Trust's lack of routine weekend CT scan facilities led to a critical delay in an urgent scan, proving too late for the patient.
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Marilyn Anson
Concerns: Delays in urgent 'hot foot' clinic referrals, coupled with inadequate patient prioritisation and resource allocation, led to patient deterioration and death.
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David Mostari
Concerns: Urgent diagnostic tests were critically delayed over a weekend due to the hospital lacking a robust system for ensuring timely imaging, particularly for patients admitted outside of weekdays.
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Leslie Summerfield
Concerns: The withdrawal of urgent endoscopy services at a hospital, despite available resources, forces critically ill patients to be transported, causing unnecessary discomfort and potentially aggravating their conditions.
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Ronald Perry
Concerns: Inconsistent criteria for requesting CT scans based on time of day or weekend leads to varying levels of care and risks missed diagnoses for patients 'out of hours'.
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