It’s World Patient Safety Day and the focus is correct and timely diagnosis. A clinical matter? In a modern health service, it’s also a data management matter insource.co.uk/today-is-world…

“No more money without reform”, said the Prime Minister in response to Lord Darzi’s blistering report on the English NHS. How does that work, exactly? We find a way through insource.co.uk/the-darzi-repo…

The English waiting list may have finally peaked, our in-house waiting times specialist Rob Findlay @ Insource writes in the Health Service Journal insource.co.uk/wait-list-fall…

Transform cancer pathway management with full pathway visibility and better conformance, immediately releasing staff time to resolve delays and bottlenecks insource.co.uk/patient-pathwa…

Wales' first minister has vowed to cut waiting times. It is tempting to reach for extra capacity as the solution, but that is to underestimate the impact of better pathway management insource.co.uk/wales-first-mi…

If you work in the independent healthcare sector, you may have difficulty with NHS reporting requirements for NHS-funded work. Did you know the NHS has difficulty too? We should know – we provide reporting services for both sectors insource.co.uk/independent-se…

Cancer patients in Scotland are waiting twice as long as they should, prompting calls for more capacity. But capacity isn’t the only way to improve these highly complex pathways insource.co.uk/130-day-wait-f…

.Jacob Haddad of Accurx explains how the good old telephone and letter are entrenching the traditional appointment as the way care is delivered. Yes. But we would go further, because more effective communication relies on good underlying data insource.co.uk/difficult-to-r…

Year-on-year reduction in English wait list accelerated in August. Good. But there’s a long way to go: it needs to shrink by nearly a million a year to restore 18-week waits this Parliament insource.co.uk/year-on-year-w…

Waiting time are long. So the NHS needs more money for direct patient care. Right? Not quite. As the Royal College of Surgeons explains, capital investment needs to come first. insource.co.uk/royal-college-…

Healthcare is complex and specialised, so its IT systems are too. But this disparate data makes it hard for clinicians and managers to optimise patient pathways. Is this inevitable? Not at all – and we have proved it insource.co.uk/get-ready-for-…

Which of the four types of management do you practice? And what one thing can improve them all? We delve into the research insource.co.uk/what-matters-m…

Some 10% of NHS elective care is now consistently delivered in the independent sector, and they could take even more. But clunky NHS waiting list management systems are getting in the way – we look at the solution insource.co.uk/independent-se…

Yet another dollop of cash from the Welsh Govt, but why are these so ineffective at solving long waiting times? Answers emerge when you look at the root causes insource.co.uk/welsh-governme… Digital Health and Care Wales

The NHS does not have the infrastructure for AI, notes Luke O'Shea. Inconsistent data causes awful reliability, says @CraigNikolic. All true. And all solvable without needing to replace the core systems, as we explain insource.co.uk/how-to-bridge-…

The Budget paved the way for extra appointments to cut waiting lists. But that is only half the story. The other half may be less glamourous, but it packs as big a punch insource.co.uk/budget-sets-th…

Just 7 months to procure and implement a Cancer Pathway Management system? An estimated saving of 76 hours per week for cancer teams? And all at Scotland’s largest NHS Board? Absolutely, and here is their case study insource.co.uk/cancer-pathway…

NHS England are shifting away from ‘cohort management’. Good. But restoring the 18 weeks standard is going to need a whole different set of tools, as we explain insource.co.uk/we-are-startin…

Doctors paid up to £200,000 overtime to tackle NHS backlog, reports the BBC. But long waits are not the whole story. We explore how better planning can reduce this high marginal cost insource.co.uk/bbc-doctors-pa…

Less resourcing means more reform, warns Labour’s top health advisor. But not all reform means upheaval. We investigate how incremental improvements can snowball into serious productivity gains insource.co.uk/government-adv…