A list of people waiting for admission to hospital usually for treatment of non-urgent disorders.<\/p>\n
A term widely used in the NHS to show the number of people waiting for hospital admission, usually for non-acute surgery. The size of the waiting list has come to be perceived over the past 20 years especially by politicians as a measure of the service’s effectiveness. To the individual patient, however, what matters is the \u2018waiting time\u2019 how long they have to wait from first seeing a doctor to receiving the required treatment. This measure is increasingly recognized as one indicator of how well a hospital is serving its local communities.<\/p>\n
A form of health care rationing that is used especially in the distribution of scarce resources, such as organs for transplantation.<\/p>\n
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