Addressing backlogs and managing waiting lists during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Since then, it has decreased to 300,566 in first round of the global Pulse survey treatment September 2021 equivalent to 5.1% of the on the continuity of essential health patients on the list. [...] Cancer services have services during the COVID-19 pandemic, also been impacted: between April and estimated that 92% of a total of 48 In some countries, care activity has June 2020, only 73% of patients started countries in the WHO European Region been restored to pre-pandemic levels, cancer treatment within two months reported some service disruption, and which helps to prevent the backlog of an [...] By September 2021 performance survey with 22 countries in 2021 indicated the Netherlands, the number of hospital has declined further, with a third of lower but still high levels of disruption surgeries was restored to pre-pandemic patients waiting longer than two months (82% of countries and 26% of the same levels by July 2021 and increased to start cancer treatment following an indicative servic [...] And this is multimorbidity were often mentioned as in a “normal” year to compensate for the in addition to the lower supply due to some factors increasing service demand and thus postponed care due to COVID-19. [...] The waiting list the size of their backlog and waiting times, (-1.5), as well as Lithuania, Poland and grows if the number of patients being and how fast these can be restored.