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Improving Patient Access
Sponsor: NHS End Waiting, Changes Lives
NHS End waiting, change lives is a programme designed to help everyone play their part in meeting the challenge of delivering a maximum 18 week wait from referral to treatment.
By December 2008, there will be a maximum waiting time for non-emergency consultant-led treatment of 18 weeks from referral to treatment, with many patients being treated much more quickly. Doctors, nurses and other NHS staff will lead the changes to services that are needed to ensure that this ambitious goal is achieved, but everyone – patients, stakeholder organisations and MPs - has a role to play in helping the NHS rise to this challenge. End waiting, change lives builds on the good progress that has already been made in reducing NHS waiting, and completes the journey on tackling non-urgent waiting times in the NHS.
The End waiting, change lives programme will provide information, ideas and best practice to staff and others who need it as the journey towards December 2008 progresses.
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