Access Target

A general term for those NHS Plan (UK) targets for improving and modernising health services, which specifically improve the ability of patients to see their GP and other doctors.

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However, the national 95% emergency access target includes: | Type 1 (major emergency departments that provide a consultant-led 24-hour service); | Type 2 (departments are consultant-led facilities but for single specialties, for example, dedicated to treating only eye conditions); | Type 3 (departments treat minor injuries and illnesses - walk-in centres).

Way off TARGET; A THIRD OF PATIENTS WAIT FOUR HOURS ... MERSEY A&E UNITS RECORD SOME OF WORST PERFORMANCES EVER

Dr Parnis says the cuts are having a visible impact on the National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) which aims to reduce in-hospital mortality of emergency admissions.

Public hospital crisis unless we act

Senegal, considered one of the most stable nations in Africa, is on track to reach the water access target of MDG 7 but will not achieve the sanitation aspect of this goal by 2015.

Achieving water security in Senegal: rural and urban water access and sanitation challenges--poster by Arianna De Reus

Irrespective of the point of view, it seems obvious to me that this change should not allow the benefits of the access target to be lost.

It is vital to make best use of doctors; emails &letters

Properly used, marketing analytics help insurers better understand and access target markets.

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Amount that each claimant will be entitled to if they were unable to access Target.

Hindsight

This survey shows that the 48-hour access target has led to significant improvements in access and has largely ended the problem of people waiting a week or more to see a GP.

Easier to see your GP

David Greenway, the Terrence Higgins Trust's regional manager in Yorkshire, said: "The Government has provided very clear guidance that sexual health services must be prioritised, together with the 48 hours access target and extra cash to help modernise services.

Sex disease clinics hit by cash crisis

The Service Delivery Statement for Queensland Health has demonstrated Queenslands improved performance against the National Emergency Access Target, with 79 per cent of patients meeting the four hour recommended treatment time - a level never achieved before in Queensland.

Australia : Health performance at record levels despite demand pressures

The Welsh Government intends to reach its broadband access target by the end of spring 2016, which means superfast broadband will become available to more people more quickly than the rest of the UK.

Computer TV or not - you need licence

Like every ED we are focused on meeting the national emergency access target of seeing and treating patients in the department within four hours," she said.

ED nurses rally for ratios: emergency departments are still the focus of the association's push for improved nurse- to-patient ratios