...Nicola Parfitt; Alison Smeatham; John Timperley; Matthew Hubble; Graham Gie Purpose This paper aims to show the results from a pioneering primary care‐based extended scope physiotherapist (ESP) led service, which placed patients directly onto the surgical waiting list of secondary care orthopaedic...

...Paul Hattam Improving the management of the orthopaedic patient has long been a top priority in healthcare provision in the UK. For the past two decades, successive governments have funded a plethora of “waiting list initiatives” in order to reduce waiting times for both in and outpatients...

... represent mean time from first appointment to neurophysiological studies and mean time from neurophysiological studies to second appointment respectively. T2 and T3 occur only in the control group. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Waiting lists Surgery Health services Figure...