18 week Referral to Treatment (RTT) in NHS

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There is a pressure from government to move towards 18 week Referral to Treatment (RTT).

Wondering how other hospitals are doing? Any bright & practical ideas to share?

Thanks

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Specializes in cardiac cath lab.

We are getting ready for it.

I work in the cardiac cath lab

so chest pain see Dr, ETT, cath, PCI or CABG

Our patients will have to have all 3 within the 18 weeks from first seeing the dr.

At the moment we have a max of 12 week wait for each after having ETT.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

Our biggest drive at the moment is pre-op assessment and other nurse led clinics to free up consultant time and optimise the theatre use.

We have a nurse led telephone followup for minor post ops, if they have no problems then they are not brought in to OPD which gives more time for new patients.

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