Waiting: Diagnostics
- Abstract
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Contains information on waiting times for diagnostic testing.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Waiting times for diagnostic tests
- Variables
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Total number of patients waiting, number still waiting by weeks, planned tests / procedures, unscheduled tests / procedures, waiting list tests / procedures (excluding planned)
- Keywords
- Diagnostic, diagnosis, diagnostic testing, waiting time, waiting list, non price rationing, rationing, imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, physiological measurement, audiology, cardiology, neurophysiology, endoscopy, colonoscopy, cystoscopy, gastroscopy
- Identifier Variables
- PCT, NHS trust, SHA
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Quality, Outcomes
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Department of Health
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
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Includes all patients waiting for a diagnostic test/procedure funded by the NHS. This includes all referral routes (i.e. whether the patient was referred by a GP or by a hospital-based clinician or other route) and also all settings (i.e. outpatient clinic, inpatient ward, x-ray department, primary care one-stop centres etc.)
- Availability
- Department of Health
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- .http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/diagnostics/index.htm OR .http://www.dh.gov.uk/[…]/index.htm
- Contact
- Tel: 01132545957, Unify2@dh.gsi.gov.uk