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https://www.europesays.com/ie/633659/ Raheny driving test centre to close in September · TheJournal.ie #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #DrivingTests #dublin #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #killester #LatestNews #LatestNews #LearnerDrivers #MainNews #MainNews #News #Raheny #RoadSafetyAuthority #TopStories #TopStories #WaitingTimes

HIP OP BACKLOG: With more than 3,000 on south-west Wales hip surgery waiting lists, new data reveals average waits still over a year

Patients who needed a hip replacement on the NHS in south-west Wales waited well over a year on average to be treated, figures released under Freedom of Information show.

At Swansea Bay University Health Board, the average wait for elective hip surgery was around 16 months in the year to the end of March 2026.

At Hywel Dda University Health Board, which covers Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, the average was around 15 months.

Together, more than 3,000 people were on the two boards’ waiting lists for a hip replacement — 1,476 at Swansea Bay UHB and 1,608 at Hywel Dda.

Welsh Government targets state that 95% of patients should be treated within 26 weeks of referral — around six months — and 100% within 36 weeks.

On that measure, both boards are treating hip patients far more slowly than the standard sets out, though the fuller picture shows waits that have been falling from much higher peaks.

At Swansea Bay UHB, the average wait has dropped sharply over three years: from around 30 months in 2023/24 (131 weeks), to around 18 months in 2024/25 (77 weeks), to around 16 months last year (70 weeks).

Hywel Dda’s figures moved differently. Its average rose from around 20 months in 2023/24 (611 days) to around 23 months in 2024/25 (689 days), before falling to around 15 months last year (450 days).

There is an important caveat in how these averages work. They measure how long patients who were actually treated had waited — so they do not capture people still on the list, and a falling average can sit alongside a growing waiting list.

That is exactly what has happened at both boards.

At Swansea Bay UHB, 1,476 patients were on the waiting list for a hip replacement at the end of March 2026 — up from 1,141 a year earlier, though down from 1,437 two years ago.

At Hywel Dda, 1,608 people were waiting as of 28 May 2026 — the larger of the two lists.

The boards measure their fastest cases slightly differently. Swansea Bay UHB said the quickest-treated 5% of patients waited 10 weeks or less last year, while Hywel Dda recorded a shortest single wait of 14 days.

In its response, Hywel Dda set out the standards it works to. A spokesperson said its orthopaedic service “is working to ensure its waiting lists are meeting Ministerial Measures set by Welsh Government.”

Those measures, the board said, require “no patients waiting longer than 52 weeks for their first outpatient appointment and no patients waiting longer than 104 weeks (two years) for treatment” — a longer benchmark than the 26-week referral-to-treatment target.

The board added that all patients “are prioritised in accordance with Royal College Guidance and treated in turn in accordance with the national policy,” ensuring the most clinically urgent are seen first.

Swansea Bay UHB’s response set out its figures without further comment.

Long waits have led some patients across the UK to explore private treatment, either at home or overseas. The numbers doing so from these two boards’ lists, however, appear small.

Swansea Bay UHB said fewer than five patients were removed from its hip waiting list in the past year because they had chosen to go private — a figure it withheld in full to avoid identifying individuals.

Hywel Dda said 16 patients were removed from its list over the same period after electing for private treatment.

Both health boards have invested in orthopaedic capacity in recent years. Hywel Dda opened new day-surgery units at Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli, backed by £20m of Welsh Government funding, which it said would help cut surgical waits across its area.

Cutting NHS waiting times has also been a recurring theme in Welsh politics, with dedicated orthopaedic treatment centres among the ideas floated to bring the backlog down.

The figures were obtained through Freedom of Information requests to the two health boards.

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https://www.europesays.com/videos/53668/ Paying more for bills as energy price cap rises by 13% | ITV Cymru Wales #BetsiCadwaladr #cars #earthquake #energy #GillianRogers #Health #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #MENTALHEALTH #NorthWales #PriceCap #support #venezuela #WaitingTimes

https://www.europesays.com/dk/98992/ Primary care waiting times increased in 2025, says THL #Finland #healthcare #helsinki #JointReplacementSurgery #MentalHealthServices #PrimaryHealthcare #SaraLaunio #SpecialisedHealthcare #THL #TreatmentDelays #WaitingTimes

https://www.europesays.com/ie/435831/ Address staffing issues before expanding BowelScreen, HIQA recommends #AgeEligibility #BowelScreen #Colonoscopies #DrMáirínRyan #Éire #HealtService #Health #HIQA #HSEStaffing #IE #Ireland #procedures #tests #WaitingLists #WaitingTimes

SCOTLAND'S NHS: A PICTURE OF SLOW RECOVERY AND DATA PUZZLES

Why is it hard to compare NHS Scotland waiting times with England? Different data rules mean direct comparisons are not possible for cancer care and more.

#NHSScotland, #NHSdata, #UKHealth, #WaitingTimes, #ScotlandvsEngland

https://newsletter.tf/scotland-nhs-data-comparison-england-rules/

Comparing NHS waiting times across the UK is very difficult. Scotland and England collect data in different ways, making a fair comparison impossible for things like cancer treatment.

#NHSScotland, #NHSdata, #UKHealth, #WaitingTimes, #ScotlandvsEngland
https://newsletter.tf/scotland-nhs-data-comparison-england-rules/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/416853/ Continued delayed cancer treatment waits ‘unacceptable’, says Cancer Research #cancer #CancerResearchUk #CancerTreatmentDelays #DameJackieBaillie #DrSandeshGulhane #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #JohnSwinney #MichelleMitchell #NHS #NHSScotland #WaitingTimes

Only Three NHS Trusts Met 85% Cancer Treatment Target in 2025, Data Shows Wide Regional Gaps

📰 Original title: Best and worst NHS trusts for cancer treatment revealed

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/posts/post/11f80dd0-7997-4c34-92b6-520fb7ce5fe1

#health #nhs #cancertreatment #waitingtimes

Why do doctors run late?
#Health #Doctors #Healthcare #MedicalDelays #PatientCare #GPClinic #HealthSystem #Medicine #DoctorAppointments #HealthcareAccess #Patients #WaitingTimes #Waiting #Late
https://the-14.com/why-do-doctors-run-late/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/415810/ What the latest NHS hospital figures for England show – The Irish News #A&E #Britain #Cancer #DataAnalysis #England #GreatBritain #Health #Hospitals #NHS #PAExclusive #UK #UnitedKingdom #WaitingTimes

‘They have you over a barrel’: how scammers, touts and bots took over driving tests | Motoring | The Guardian
https://amp.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/jul/04/they-have-you-over-a-barrel-how-scammers-touts-and-bots-took-over-driving-tests

#DrivingTests
#Driving
#WaitingTimes
#Scammers
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#BlackMarket
#DVSA
#DataProtecion

Time for another roundup of business at the  Open Journal of Astrophysics. This time I have three papers to announce, which brings the total we have published so far this year (Vol. 7) to 45 and the total published by OJAp to 160. We’re still on track to publish around 100 papers this year or more, compared to last year’s 50.

First one up, published on 3rd June 2024, is “Log-Normal Waiting Time Widths Characterize Dynamics” by Jonathan Katz of Washington University (St Louis, Missouri, USA). This paper presents a discussion of the connection between waiting time distributions and dynamics for aperiodic astrophysical systems, with emphasis on log-normal distributions.  This paper is in the folder marked High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay, which includes the abstract:

You can read the paper directly on arXiv here.

The second paper to present is “An Empirical Model For Intrinsic Alignments: Insights From Cosmological Simulations” by Nicholas Van Alfen (Northeastern University, Boston, USA), Duncan Campbell (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA), Jonathan Blazek (Northeastern University), C. Danielle Leonard (Newcastle University, UK), Francois Lanusse (Université Paris-Saclay, France), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University) and The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.  This paper presents an extension of the halo model (specifically the Halo Occupation Distribution, HOD) to include intrinsic alignment effects for the study of weak gravitational lensing. This paper is in the folder marked Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It was published on Tuesday June 4th 2024.

The overlay looks like this:

You can read this paper directly on the arXiv here.

Last, but by no means least, comes  “Towards Cosmography of the Local Universe”  which proposes the multipoles of the distance-redshift relation as new cosmological observables that have a direct physical interpretation in terms of kinematical quantities of the underlying matter flow. This was also published on 4th June. The authors are Julian Adamek (IfA Zurich, Switzerland), Chris Clarkson (Queen Mary, London, UK), Ruth Durrer (Geneva, Switzerland), Asta Heinesen (U. Lyon, France & NBI Copenhagen, Denmark), Martin Kunz (Geneva), and Hayley J. Macpherson (Chicago, USA).

Here is a screengrab of the overlay:

https://telescoper.blog/2024/06/08/three-new-publications-at-the-open-journal-of-astrophysics-9/

#aperiodicSystems #arXiv230305578v3 #arXiv231107374v2 #arXiv240212165v2 #cosmography #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #HaloModel #haloOccupationDistribution #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #intrinsicAlignments #Lognormal #lognormalDistributions #OJAp #statistics #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #waitingTimes #weakGravitationalLensing

‘I am very uncomfortable’: MND patient’s long wait for wheelchair | Motor neurone disease | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/21/i-am-very-uncomfortable-mnd-patients-long-wait-for-wheelchair

#Wheelchair
#MND
#WaitingTimes
#AJMHealthcare

NHS’s leading wheelchair provider told to improve as people wait up to two years | NHS | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/21/nhss-leading-wheelchair-provider-told-to-improve-as-people-wait-up-to-two-years

#NHS
#Wheelchairs
#WheelchairProvider
#Wheelchair
#AJMHealthcare
#WaitingTimes
#PHSO
#ICBs
#Criteria

Southampton pensioner fuming as she waits months for blue badge | Daily Echo
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24263063.southampton-pensioner-fuming-waits-months-blue-badge/

#BlueBadge
#Southampton
#WaitingTimes

Long A&E waiting times ‘killing 250 people a week’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-ae-waiting-times-deaths-b2521270.html

#NHS
#AAndE
#WaitingTimes
#Deaths

Pensioner dies after three-hour wait for ambulance that never came
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/pensioner-dies-after-three-hour-wait-for-ambulance-that-never-came/ar-BB1iraE4?cvid=bc9bfaa2affa4d6bf122b2d9614f104f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=5

#Death
#Ambulance
#WaitingTimes
#EMAS
#NonLifeThreateningBreathingDifficulties
#

#NHS #WaitingTimes #A&E #Underfunded #ToryGovermentRuiningBritain

Nottingham: Mum found under coat in A&E died days later - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-68243636

NHS trusts in Hampshire ranked by A&E waiting times | Hampshire Chronicle
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24013348.nhs-trusts-hampshire-ranked-e-waiting-times/

#NHS
#Hampshire
#WaitingTimes
#AAndE

Children waiting years for autism and cerebral palsy treatment as NHS chiefs slam government inaction | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-children-waiting-list-england-b2432337.html

#Autism
#CerebralPalsy
#NHS
#Children
#WaitingList
#WaitingTimes
#NHSCommunityServices
#NHSConfederation
#DeptForHealthAndSocialCare

About '@SteveBarclay's comparison of #NHS 'waiting times'... @FullFact?

'They're not really comparable figures, are they?' @sallynugent, @BBCBreakfast, noted.

Article via @HuffPostUKPol #WaitingTimes #NHSinCRISIS

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-breakfast-host-flaw-steve-barclay-nhs-wales-england-waiting-times_uk_64d9e1a7e4b06561a9d28735?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

Government must help ambulance crews over ‘worrying’ waiting times – Lib Dems | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/government-lib-dems-msps-scottish-government-credit-b2384357.html

#Scotland
#Ambulance
#LibDems
#WaitingTimes

"The NHS has a duty to see 92% of those referred to specialist healthcare services within 18 weeks, yet the average waiting time for young transgender people is nearly three years, and many adults face waits of four years or more."

Good Law Project asking for cash, to keep following up on the case that these excessive healthcare delays are illegal.

https://actions.goodlawproject.org/healthcare_delays_appeal

#trans #health #WaitingTimes #NHS #law

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64439121

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64439121

#NHS #WaitingTimes #Treatment #Healthcare