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Health Innovation Network
Elective Hubs: Patient and staff insights (2022)
NHS England commissioned the Health Innovation Network, the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for South London, to deliver a qualitative evaluation of the effects of deployment of elective hubs on patient and staff experience.
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NHS England
HVLC programme - Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
Information about elective care improvement within NHS England.
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Elective Recovery High Volume Low Complexity (HVLC) guide for systems (May 2021)
This guide provides a comprehensive view of the HVLC programme and is intended to support NHS region and system leaders in their understanding and communication of the programme, and to enable the development of their local HVLC delivery plans.
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
The case for surgical hubs
A data analysis to show the extent to which peaks of COVID and regular winter pressures have affected elective (planned) surgery.
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The King’s Fund
Tackling health inequalities on NHS waiting lists (8 November 2023)
Three years after it was first announced, The King’s Fund wanted to explore how the policy for NHS organisations to take an inclusive approach to tackling their elective care backlogs was being interpreted and implemented in three case study sites.
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Waiting times for elective (non-urgent) treatment: referral to treatment (RTT) (24 May 2024)
Data and charts to explore how long people are waiting for treatment and what impact Covid-19 has had on the numbers.
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UK Government
Over 50 new surgical hubs set to open across England to help bust the COVID-19 backlogs
Press release from the Department of Health and Social Care (26 August 2022)
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