In February 2022 NHS England published its Delivery Plan for Tackling the Covid-19 Backlog of Elective Care ,1 aiming for an unprecedented 30% rise in elective activity by 2024-25. In an effort to cut waiting times and the number of people waiting for first appointments, the plan set an improbably ambitious target of reducing follow-up outpatient visits by 25% by March 2023 from 2019-20, to leave more capacity for first appointments. All first appointment waits of over 52 weeks were to be abolished by 2025.
Last month the Health Service Journal 2 reported that the latest NHS digital hospital episodes statistics3 showed 124.2 million outpatient appointments in 2022-23 no increase in overall volume from 124.4 million in 2019-20 and 123.4 million in 2018-19, despite the targets. Around 65.1 million follow-up appointments were recorded in 2022-23, down slightly from 65.4 million in 2019-20 and 66 million in 2018-19.
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