Consultant-led Referral To Treatment (RTT) waiting times monitor the length of time from referral through to elective treatment. This data is published on the NHS England website. Please follow the link below.

Referral to treatment waiting annual report for calendar year

Source agency: NHS England

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: RtT Annual Report

Restoration of elective activity is one of the highest priorities for NHS England and NHS Improvement following the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding the composition of the waiting list is critical to managing restoration within North West London.

Data will be collected via data submissions made by each individual provider of NHS Acute healthcare services in North West London. This dataset includes data from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust and The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust. Data will be processed under an Information Sharing Agreement between North West London CCG and each organisation. Data submissions will be processed and used for the following purposes:

1. Developing a visual display of the waiting list composition (Elective Waiting List Data Dashboard).
2. Developing a data quality improvement programme with providers.

All RTT pathways with a clock start date after 23:59 on Sunday 4th April 2021 and before 23:59 on the Sunday of the reporting period and not recorded to date (in a previous submission).

The waiting time for patients from referral by their GP to treatment at London NHS hospitals.

This information covers patients admitted to hospital, those not admitted, and those patients still waiting (incomplete care pathways). It shows the following measures for each:

•Percentage of patients waiting less than 18 weeks •Numbers (volume) of patients •Median Wait (weeks) •95th Percentile (weeks) :

Data source: Department of Health Referral To Treatment (RTT) data collections

This table provides the current data on referral to treatment waiting times for patient pathways waiting (open pathway) to start treatment by grouped weeks. Hywel Dda health board has no patients waiting for audiological medicine from January 2019 onwards, this is due to the service moving into the community based model. In March 2016, we changed some of the terminology used in referral to treatment reporting. Previously, when publishing these statistics, we used the terminology ‘patients’. However, some users misinterpreted this as unique patients. It is possible that a person could be on a number of different lists waiting for different conditions – i.e. there would be one patient but more than one pathway. Due to the RTT dataset being an aggregate data collection we’re not able to measure the number of unique patients. Therefore, we are using the terminology ‘patient pathways’, to better reflect the fact that one person can be on multiple waiting lists. The methodology use to measure and calculate these statistics has not changed. This is also more consistent with the other nations of the UK in their reporting of RTT.

This table provides the current data on referral to treatment waiting times for closed patient pathways. Closed pathways include: patient pathways treated, patient pathways who no longer wanted to be seen, deceased patient pathways. This excludes closed patient pathways with unknown treatment start date. Hywel Dda health board has no patients waiting for audiological medicine from January 2019 onwards, this is due to the service moving into the community based model. From April 2016, there has been a change in the treatment function codes submitted by the local health boards. In March 2016, we changed some of the terminology used in referral to treatment reporting. Previously, when publishing these statistics, we used the terminology ‘patients’. However, some users misinterpreted this as unique patients. It is possible that a person could be on a number of different lists waiting for different conditions – i.e. there would be one patient but more than one pathway. Due to the RTT dataset being an aggregate data collection we’re not able to measure the number of unique patients. Therefore, we are using the terminology ‘patient pathways’, to better reflect the fact that one person can be on multiple waiting lists. The methodology use to measure and calculate these statistics has not changed. This is also more consistent with the other nations of the UK in their reporting of RTT.

This table provides estimated numbers of individual patients on Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting lists in Wales by local health board.