Whittington Trust Clears 5500 Patients, Boosts Treatments

0:00On April 2nd, Wittington Health NHS Trust in North London just knocked over 5,500 people off their waiting list with a burst of. Extra Spring Clinics, they ran intensive evening and weekend sessions through February and March to tackle the backlog and hit national care targets. These clinics boosted treatments across outpatient visits, operating theaters, and neurodevelopmental checks, pushing the trust from treating only. About half their patients within 18 weeks back in December to nearly three quarters now, the impact hit hard in key spots. Patients waiting over a year for plan care dropped from more than 650 to under 90 by marches. End. In Islington, they cleared the entire priority list for kids needing autism or ADHD assessments, seeing 170 children and cutting. Average waits by three months. Adult services saw big wins too, with over 600 all-vascular surgery lists, 800 from neurology, and more than 1,000 from general surgery and dermatology cues.

1:03Leaders like the chief operating officer and chief executive shouted out their teams from porters to clinicians for stepping up big time. Now the trust is locked in to keep these gains rolling into the new financial year, proving they can deliver when it counts for real people waiting on, care.