Calls for independent audits in future to stop misrecording of figures
Margaret Hodge said problem deprives patients of choice
NHS administrators were found to be 'starting the clock' at wrong time
England's Nat'l Health Sys waiting times: Spot checks find one in four hospitals were recording false figures
(28 April 2014) Errors in hospital waiting list times have undermined public confidence in the data, claims a public spending watchdog.
The Public Accounts Committee called for independent audits in future after spot checks found one in four hospitals recording false waiting list times.
It said hospital Trusts were 'struggling with a hotchpotch' of IT and paper-based systems that made it difficult to compare their performance.
NHS waiting lists are at highest for 6 years with 2.8m waiting for surgery or other hospital procedures
NHS targets, introduced by Labour in 2008, state that 90 per cent of patients who need inpatient care and 95 per cent who require outpatient treatment should wait no longer than 18 weeks.
More...NHS watchdog chief goes private for hip operation... avoiding the three-month wait patients face in hospitals he's meant to be improving
NHS waiting lists are at highest for 6 years with 2.8m waiting for surgery or other hospital procedures
Britain's hospital bed crisis is second worst in Europe. . . and we are only marginally better than China
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The Public Accounts Committee called for independent audits in future after spot checks found one in four hospitals recording false waiting list times.
It said hospital Trusts were 'struggling with a hotchpotch' of IT and paper-based systems that made it difficult to compare their performance.
NHS waiting lists are at highest for 6 years with 2.8m waiting for surgery or other hospital procedures
NHS targets, introduced by Labour in 2008, state that 90 per cent of patients who need inpatient care and 95 per cent who require outpatient treatment should wait no longer than 18 weeks.
More...NHS watchdog chief goes private for hip operation... avoiding the three-month wait patients face in hospitals he's meant to be improving
NHS waiting lists are at highest for 6 years with 2.8m waiting for surgery or other hospital procedures
Britain's hospital bed crisis is second worst in Europe. . . and we are only marginally better than China
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-26...
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
..."NHS waiting lists are at highest for 6 years with 2.8m waiting for surgery or other hospital procedures"...