About Find Faster Care
Find Faster Care is an independent patient information project. It is not part of the NHS. It uses published waiting-time data to help people understand options and prepare better questions for their GP, hospital or NHS board.
Our mission
Make published waiting-time data easier to understand for everyone, including families, carers, older adults and people who do not normally work with healthcare data.
Our promise
Clear language, careful data labels, honest limitations and no promises that anyone will be treated faster.
How it works
- Choose England or Scotland.
- Search published waiting-time information.
- Read the limits of the data.
- Prepare questions or a draft message to discuss with your GP or hospital.
Project background
Find Faster Care began as a data analytics project exploring published NHS RTT waiting time and urgent care data. The original analysis covered provider pressure, specialty waiting times, ICB-level system pressure and patient-friendly healthcare access insights.
The project identified and corrected a double-counting issue in the NHS RTT full CSV by separating provider-level total treatment function rows from specialty-level rows. All analysis uses public aggregate data only; no patient-level data was used.