Almost 12,000 hospital follow-up requests more than a year overdue
Almost 12,000 outpatient follow-up requests at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are more than a year overdue, according to papers prepared for its 12 November board meeting.
The report puts the total backlog at approximately 39,000 requests, with most concentrated in a relatively small number of specialties.
The trust’s finance and performance committee says work is underway to check the list and improve booking arrangements. It also records development of patient-initiated follow-up pathways and planned use of artificial intelligence to help summarise patient pathways.
However, the committee is demanding clearer assessments of clinical risk and recovery plans for individual specialties that demonstrate the backlog can be reduced sustainably. It also stresses the need to work with primary care.
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