My hope is we’ll look to our friends who have implemented a plan like this to figure out how they’ve managed to do so well by keeping the waiting time around 110 days to see a doctor and almost being able to guarantee an appointment won’t take longer than 18 weeks:

nhs.uk

The NHS has achieved the shortest waiting times since its records began, the Department of Health said today.

It also said it had met its “18 weeks” waiting time target, whereby patients referred from a GP for further treatment start that treatment within 18 weeks. The target became the operational standard for the NHS from January 1 2009. Today’s announcement confirms that the deadline was met.

The average wait for treatment for patients admitted to hospital is now just 8.6 weeks. Outpatients waited an average of 4.6 weeks at January 2009, compared to 7.4 weeks at August 2007