Specialist NHS teams helped cut waiting lists 3 times faster than the national average, a new report has revealed.
Thousands of patients across England benefitted from the Further Faster 20 (FF20) programme, which helped slash waiting times and turbocharge activity, and is getting people back to work, News Cover reports, citing the UK government.
Crack teams of experts were sent to 20 hospital trusts across England with the highest levels of economic inactivity, with the aim of cutting the waiting list and boosting growth.
The health service will take learnings from the programme and use these to take the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS.
The findings of the FF20 report come as the government marks one year since the launch of the elective reform plan - where record NHS funding is directed towards cutting waiting lists and getting patients seen on time again.
Since July 2024, the waiting list is down by more than 225,000 despite 28.4 million referrals, making a huge difference to people’s lives up and down the country.
