Waiting Times Exceeded Once Again
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The Horder Centre has maintained its superb record for exceeding the Government’s waiting time targets for treatment.
New figures for January and February this year show the Centre treated an average of 97% of patients - 520 in total - within 18 weeks of referral, well above the Government target of 90%.
This compares to an average of 94% at the Horder Centre between January and August 2009.
Alison Green, Information Manager at The Horder Centre, said: “After a very strong performance in 2009, we are thrilled to start 2010 with the same record of greatly exceeding the national minimum waiting time target.
As a centre of excellence, The Horder Centre is a vibrant hospital which delivers a very high level of patient satisfaction and superb outcomes.The Centre is a registered charity and we aim to make our services available to as many people as possible in a warm, friendly and efficient way.
“As the Centre’s major capital redevelopment programme progresses, we will be delivering many new benefits to patients at the Centre, including improvements to patient accommodation, but we remain fully committed to maintaining our waiting time performance. We see this is as a key priority.”
The Horder Centre is a renowned Charity and Centre of Excellence for NHS and self-funding patients requiring joint replacement surgery, performing elective orthopaedic surgery and specialist assessment for arthritic and musculo-skeletal conditions. Putting patients at the heart of its activities, the Centre continues to strive to achieve the principles laid down by its founders over 50 years ago
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The Horder Centre specialises in the diagnosis,treatment of orthopaedic, arthritic, Arthritis treatment and other musculo-skeletal conditions.
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