New analysis shows most NHS systems do not track outcomes, NICE adherence or pathways in gynaecology – despite more than 750,000 women waiting for care.
A report from the Medical Technology Group has warned that widespread failures to collect data and monitor best practice in gynaecology services are leaving women facing longer delays to diagnosis and treatment.
Analysis of Freedom of Information (FOI) responses from 42 Integrated Care Boards reveals that gynaecology remains one of the least monitored and least accountable areas of NHS care. Unlike better-resourced and planned specialties, most ICBs lack basic information on referral pathways, waiting times, diagnosis, treatment or outcomes for women's health conditions.
The findings come as part of the MTG's Commission on NHS Culture, an investigation into how organisational culture across the NHS affects the adoption and spread of innovation and technology to improve the delivery of services.
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