NHS hospitals may prioritize meeting 18-week target over clinical need, analysis shows

There's strong evidence of a 'threshold effect' in English hospitals' efforts to comply with the 18-week referral to treatment standard, concludes a long term data analysis of performance against the target, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.

source https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230905/NHS-hospitals-may-prioritize-meeting-18-week-target-over-clinical-need-analysis-shows.aspx

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