All acute NHS trusts and nearly all GP practices have switched off paper referrals and are now using NHS England’s e-referral service (e-RS). NHS England had set an October deadline, requiring all GP ...

Exclusive A hospital trust has moved to ban consultants from refusing patient referrals from GPs by downgrading them to ...

One in seven patients awaiting hospital treatment finds their referral has been lost, rejected, or never even dispatched, according to a new study by Healthwatch England. The research reveals that a ...

NHS England is working on a new strategy aimed at further increasing the use of ‘advice and guidance’ (A&G) before GP referrals are accepted. GPs may be asked to significantly reduce the number of ...

Abingdon GP Prit Buttar has criticised a scheme designed to save NHS funds by cutting patient referrals to hospital. A year ago, the Clinical Advice and Liaison Service (Cals) was introduced in the ...

The experience of NHS patients obtaining a GP referral has improved, but many still face delays and uncertainty, according to a new report from Healthwatch England. The organisation found that 1 in 7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reduction in the number of GP referrals to hospitals could be creating a “hidden backlog” of patients needing help, according to ...

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has cut down the processing time for GP referrals by using intelligent automation and virtual workers. The trust has teamed up with supplier ...

The waiting list for routine hospital treatment has climbed to its highest level for 10 months. An estimated 7.64 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of August, relating to ...

Health bosses today said they were on course to hit national targets for the amount of time it takes to treat Shropshire patients after referral from a GP. Did you know with a Plus subscription to ...

A reduction in the number of GP referrals to hospitals could be creating a “hidden backlog” of patients needing help, according to a new report. The study by the Institute For Government (IFG) and ...