How Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital patients could be seen sooner elsewhere in Lancashire, as effort steps up to cut waits locally and across the county
“What has happened over the last few years – particularly in winter when the pressure is in the emergency pathway and it becomes really difficult – [is that] some elective work is stood down as a consequence.
However, he said he took heart from his experience in the service 20 years ago when a focus on tackling long waiting lists led to them being slashed from two or three years, in some cases, to months and weeks. “I know the NHS comes in for criticism – and we certainly don’t get everything right – but…when the NHS puts its collective weight behind something, it really does deliver.”In common with NHS trusts up and down the country, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is currently facing a raft of waiting time pressures as it attempts to get back on a firm footing after the pandemic set back its performance against a series of key targets.
Chief operating officer Faith Button told this month’s board meeting that the service “isn’t recovering at the pace that we expected it to”. Board members were told that pressure on diagnostic endoscopy tests was exacerbating the 62-day performance – although these were still being carried out within two weeks for cancer and other urgent patients, but with routine patients facing longer waits.
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