Elective care

Advice and guidance to help you manage demand, capacity and operational management at important steps in the elective care pathway. We want to support elective team to reduce waiting times and improve access to community services.

Elective care guide

Guidance for NHS staff involved the delivery of acute elective care who want to understand how best to manage and deliver referral to treatment (RTT) pathways and standards.

Elective Care Essentials programme

A programme designed to support managers to improve the breadth and depth of their knowledge and expertise regarding elective care to support sustainable delivery of RTT, cancer and diagnostic waiting times.

Elective care: model access policy

We've produced this policy in response to requests from providers and wider health systems for guidance and support in producing their own elective access policies.