Talking to referrers, making sure referrals included all the information needed and each clinician seeing six children from the waiting list each day, helped the North East London Dental Team reduce paediatric waiting times.
They trialled doing things differently to see what would have most impact, including a series of blitz clinics. The quality improvement (QI) project saw wait times reduce with the team surpassing their original target.
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