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Thirteen new community diagnostic centres are opening across the country to deliver more than 742,000 additional scans, tests and checks a year

Funding has been halved for a GP-led service in Northern Ireland that takes pressure off 'astronomical waiting lists' in areas like menopause treatment.

A leading GP in Northern Ireland has warned that 50% cuts to specialist GP clinics will compound the problem of “terrible” hospital waiting lists.

In February 2022 NHS England published its Delivery Plan for Tackling the Covid-19 Backlog of Elective Care ,1 aiming for an unprecedented 30% rise in elective activity by 2024-25. In an effort to cut waiting times and the number of people waiting for first appointments, the plan set an improbably ambitious target of reducing follow-up outpatient visits by 25% by March 2023 from 2019-20, to leave more capacity for first appointments. All first appointment waits of over 52 weeks were to be abolished by 2025. Last month the Health Service Journal 2 reported that the latest NHS digital hospital e...

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