The NHS Constitution says that patients are entitled to be seen and start treatment within 18 weeks of referral to hospital. Local hospitals have a target set by NHS England that 92% of patients referred with be seen within 18 weeks. However a common complaint of patients is that when we refer patients to our local hospital it takes longer than that for them to get seen. In my role on the CCG Board I am aware the Pinderfields is failing to meet its 18 weeks target. If you click here you can read about their performance in the public minutes of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust board. The last minutes publicly available are from July and they give details of their performance in April, 2016 which I understand has not improved a lot since. Below is a list of the performance of each speciality: From the table you can see that the specialities that are performing particularly badly are orthopaedics, ENT, plastic surgery and neurology. This is the reason that patients
