There is need to further improve
waiting time of patients to increase patient satisfaction.
A person
waiting for a plot at Llandaff Fields Allotments has been on the
waiting list since August 28, 2012 - a massive six year and one month wait.
However the NTPF does not publish
waiting lists for a number of diagnostic scans and the latest available figures show a further 135,000
waiting for MRIs, ultrasounds and CT scans.
Every other hospital trust covering the West Midlands met area hit the one per cent
waiting time target at the end of May.
This meant 2,085 patients were
waiting longer than the target time, with five patients having spent more than a year on the
waiting list.
At the end of April, 88.7 per cent of patients
waiting for treatment had been on the list for less than 18 weeks, below the target is 92 per cent.
As the numbers on the
waiting list continue to grow, the number
waiting longer than the target time of 18 weeks passed 500,000 for the first time in nearly a decade - with the last time so many people were
waiting that long was August 2008, when 521,000 had been
waiting more than 18 weeks.
We need to accept that
waiting plays a part of our daily lives, so we need to wait for God's perfect time, for the right place with the right person to avoid getting hurt over and over again.
We need to humanise those
waiting lists so that the people in charge know.
The party's primary care spokesman John Brassil said: "While hospital
waiting lists and the
waiting times for services such as CAMHS command a lot of attention, there are other areas where people are also enduring long waits.
IT'S AN unending wait for membership at the Capital's two elite clubs and going by the
waiting period, for some it may not end in their lifetime.
In this case the video packets are serviced immediately after the voice packets found in the queue without necessarily
waiting to service voice packets that arrive while the video packets are already in the queue.
But the
waiting continues, even after I graduated from college.
The average
waiting time for adults in England can vary from 20 to 182 days depending on the Trust, BBC Breakfast found through Freedom of Information requests.