Hospitals to get 'unlimited incentive payments' to take patients off waiting lists, say reports - Manchester Evening News

Hospitals to get 'unlimited incentive payments' to take patients off waiting lists, say reports - Manchester Evening News

NHS trusts have this week been ordered to “validate” their entire waiting list, reports say, meaning every patient will be removed and anyone who could be treated elsewhere, or does not need an appointment with a specialist, will be removed

Is UK Labour’s new ‘unlimited’ bonuses for removing the sick from waiting lists just a repeat of a 2013 Tory scheme giving them for placing patients on ‘death lists?’

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: Hospitals in England are being offered unlimited bonus payments to remove people they decide do not need treatment from their waiting lists amid warnings that thousands of patients most in need are still facing unacceptable delays. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/10/hospitals-in-england-to-get-unlimited-incentive-payments-for-patients-taken-off-waiting-lists This sch…