Super Saturday!

How we are reducing waiting times

Everyone at Sheffield Children’s is dedicated to reducing waiting times for patients and we are doing this in a range of different ways:

• running extra theatres and clinics
• maximising the use of theatres
• reducing the time day-case patients spend in hospital
• providing extra support for children with the greatest needs
• freeing up space within clinics to offer more appointments.

The waiting list recovery programme

Sheffield Children’s is part of a national alliance of leading children’s hospitals committed to reducing waiting times by sharing experience and adopting new ways of working

This collaboration – known as the National Paediatric Accelerator Programme – enables us to share ways of improving waiting times. So together, we can act more quickly to make a real difference and offer a better experience for children, young people, and their families.

Other specialist children’s hospitals in the alliance are Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

Five other hospitals with large children’s departments are also involved:

• Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
• Evelina London Children’s Hospital
• Leeds Children’s Hospital
• Oxford University Hospital
• University Hospital Southampton

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