Patients asked to travel for hospital treatment in NHS 'final push' to 'eliminate two-year waiters'

NHS England Offers Long-Term Waiting-List Patients Option to Travel for Surgery

The English branch of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) said it is giving patients who have been on waiting lists for more than two years the option to receive treatment more quickly at hospitals in different parts of the country. Pandemic-related lockdowns caused hospital waiting lists to mount, but NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard said the number who have waited for two years or more to receive treatment has fallen from a peak of 22,…

NHS asking patients to travel for hospital treatment in bid to cut operation waiting times

The NHS has said it will cover travel and accommodation costs to patients 'where appropriate'

NHS: Patients asked to travel for hospital treatment in NHS 'final push' to 'eliminate two-year waiters'

The health service will try to match thousands of people with hospitals outside of their local area for treatment by the end of July. Costs for travel and accommodation will be covered.

NHS patients to be offered chance to travel for surgery

Hundreds of patients who have waited two years or more have already said they are willing to travel.

NHS patients will spend final years in pain, warns top doctor

Suffering is “the new norm” in the NHS and people can expect to spend their last few years in pain, the outgoing chairman of the British Medical Association says

NHS England ‘set to eliminate list of patients waiting two years for treatment’

People who remain on the waiting list are being asked whether they are prepared to travel to receive treatment.