COVID-19 recovery plan, ambitions for referral to treatment waiting times
On the 26th April 2022 the Welsh Government published its programme for transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists in Wales. This plan sets out a number of key ambitions to reduce waiting times for people in Wales and the relevant data for referral to treatment times are published here.
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General description
On the 26th April 2022 the Welsh Government published its programme for transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists in Wales. This plan sets out a number of key ambitions to reduce waiting times for people in Wales and the relevant data for referral to treatment times are published here.Data collection and calculation
The data presented draws on management information held by Local Health Boards relating to the management of patients who have been referred for hospital treatment. Guidance is provided to the NHS in Wales about how such patients should be managed and how to measure and report the relevant data. The data is reported monthly by Local Health Boards via the Digital Health and Care Wales Service (DHCW) switching service. The data collection has been in place since April 2007.Frequency of publication
MonthlyData reference periods
September 2011 onwardsUsers, uses and context
Please find this information in the related statistical release, as per the given weblink.Revisions information
Data for 12 months prior to publication is subject to revision. Any large or significant revisions to the data are noted in the ‘Notes for this month’s publication’ in the statistical release.Title
Key ambitions of the planned care recovery plan for referral to treatment waiting times by date, treatment function, ambition and local health boardLast update
18/04/2024Next update
23/05/2024Publishing organisation
Welsh GovernmentSource 1
Referral to treatment times (RTT), Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW)Contact email
stats.healthinfo@gov.walesDesignation
National StatisticsLowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local health boardsGeographical coverage
Local health boardsLanguages covered
English and WelshData licensing
You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licenceKeywords
RTTPlanned Care Recovery Plan
Waiting times
Pathways
Statistical quality
A referral to treatment pathway (RTT) covers the time waiting from referral to hospital for treatment and includes time spent waiting for any hospital appointments, tests, scans or other procedures that may be needed before being treated.A patient pathway opens, and a waiting time begins, at the point a hospital receives a referral. Referrals are most commonly submitted by GPs but may also come from other health care professionals. The main activity measure for referral to treatment time is a count of the number of patient pathways which are open at the end of each month. This can be thought of as ‘the waiting list’.
A patient pathway is closed if either the patient starts treatment, or if following consultation with a hospital specialist, no hospital treatment is necessary. This could include:
patient admitted to hospital for an operation or treatment
starting treatment that does not need a stay in hospital (for example, medication or physiotherapy)
beginning the fitting of a medical device such as leg braces
starting an agreed period of time to monitor the patient’s condition to assess the need for further treatment
Patients with complex needs may have referrals for multiple types of treatments so may have many pathways opened and will appear in the dataset more than one time. This means that the same patient can have different pathways counted in the calculations for both targets.
Weblinks
https://gov.wales/nhs-activity-and-performance-summaryhttps://gov.wales/nhs-activity-and-performance-summary-quality-report
https://gov.wales/referral-treatment-times-quality-report
