NHS standards and performance: is prioritisation the answer we’ve been looking for?

NHS standards and performance: is prioritisation the answer we’ve been looking for? Our June 2017 quarterly monitoring report (QMR) showed that NHS performance on key access targets over the financial year 2016/17 continued to deteriorate. For the ambulance response time, A&E four-hour waiting time and 62-day cancer treatment targets 2016/17 was the third year in a row that performance was below the standard; for elective waiting times (18 weeks from referral to treatment), it was the first. King's Fund