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Don t show me this message again✕ Average wait time for waiting-list diagnosis nears 10 months (Getty) More than four million NHS patients are awaiting diagnosis, according to a new report. New analysis undertaken by the think tank Policy Exchange found that 80 per cent of the 5.3 million-long NHS waiting list are yet to be diagnosed, with an average wait-time approaching 10 months. The report, A Wait on Your Mind, called for the government to invest £1.3bn in new funding for diagnostics to slash the average wait-time to eight weeks. Around 20 per cent of cancers are diagnosed on referrals for other medical problems, meaning that there were likely to be hundreds of cancer patients going undiagnosed within each NHS hospital in England, according to the report. ....
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Credit: Pedro Vilela/Getty Images NHS England (NHSE) will now publish ethnicity data on who is receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, following backlash and accusations of potential bias. For the first seven weeks of NHSE’s vaccination programme, Pinnacle, the digital registration system being used to record vaccination progress, has recorded information based on region and age band of recipient (80+ and under 80). This will now be supplemented by data on ethnic group and occupation, in order to highlight roll-out and uptake in high-risk groups, such as black, asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups and those living in deprivation. WHY IT MATTERS ....
Data the Government and NHS are putting out on the coronavirus vaccine rollout in England is “not good enough”, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has said. A dearth of data on who is receiving coronavirus vaccines means the public cannot know how well the programme is progressing, according to Professor Jennifer Rogers, a member of the RSS Covid-19 task force. Eight weeks into the rollout, some 5.9 million people in England and 6.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose. But there is currently no official information on how many doses have gone to each priority group in England, which include care home residents and their carers. ....