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• If you are interested in England level or regional waiting times please use the “Commissioner Data” files.
• If you are interested in waiting times at provider trusts then please use the “Provider Data” files.

• Incomplete pathways are waiting times for cases where patients are still waiting to start treatment at the end of the month.
• Admitted pathways are waiting times for cases where patients completed their RTT pathway during the month with an inpatient/day case admission for treatment.  Until September 2015 adjustments were made to admitted pathways for clock pauses, where a patient had declined reasonable offers of admission and chose to wait longer.
• Non-admitted pathways are waiting times for cases where patients completed their RTT pathway during the month for reasons other than an inpatient/day case admission for treatment (e.g. started treatment in an outpatient setting or a non-treatment clock stop).
• Incomplete pathways with a decision to admit for treatment are waiting times for cases where patients are still waiting to start treatment at the end of the month where a clinical decision to admit to a hospital bed for treatment has been made.
• New RTT periods are the number of new RTT pathways where the clock start date is within the reporting month.

Revisions are published periodically (usually every six months) in line with NHS England Analytical Service team’s revisions policy.  Referral to treatment data for Apr-20, May-20, Jun-20, Oct-20 and Dec-20 was revised on 14 October 2021.

Clinically-led Review of NHS Access Standards

Please see note below on the publication of RTT data during the Clinically-led Review of NHS Access Standards.

Publication of RTT Waiting Times data CRS (PDF, 30K)