Diagnostic test waiting times and activity data
The diagnostic waiting times data provides information about the NHS waiting list for 15 specific diagnostic tests. The key performance measure for diagnostic test waiting times is that patients should undergo their test within 6 weeks of being referred.
The dashboards show the number of patients in each month on the waiting list for each of the 15 tests and how long they have waited. They also flag the number and proportion of patients waiting more than 6 and 13 weeks for a test and how many diagnostic tests were carried out during the month. The data includes both planned, i.e. waiting list tests and unscheduled tests (those performed urgently for non-elective patients).
The diagnostic waiting times data provides information about the NHS waiting list for 15 specific diagnostic tests. The key performance measure for diagnostic test waiting times is that patients should undergo their test within 6 weeks of being referred. The dashboards show the number of patients in each month on the waiting list for each of the 15 tests and how long they have waited….
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Data notes
This data provides information about the NHS waiting list for 15 specific diagnostic tests. The key performance measure for diagnostic test waiting times is that patients should undergo their test within 6 weeks of being referred. The data includes the number of patients in each month on the waiting list for each of the 15 tests and how long they have waited. It also details the number and proportion of patients waiting more than 6 and 13 weeks for a test and how many diagnostic tests were carried out during the month. The dataset includes both planned, i.e. waiting list tests and unscheduled tests (those performed urgently for non-elective patients).
Data is sourced from NHS England’s monthly Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity Dataset, for which detailed notes and the core datasets are available here.
NHS peer groups are defined using NHS Digital’s Peer Finder Tool which identifies each NHS Trust’s closest ten peers based on a list of variables such as attendances, deprivation, patient profile and location profile. Further details are available on the NHS Digital website here.
All data used in these visualisations is available in the public domain and reproduced under the relevant Open Government licence.
Attributions:
• Contains NHS England and NHS Digital data © Crown copyright and database right 2020
• Contains MSOA names © Open Parliament copyright and database right 2020
• Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020
• Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2020
• Contains Public Health England data © Crown copyright and database right 2020
• Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
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