Elective Care and Waiting List Recovery 

Additional capacity for elective recovery and sustainable pathway improvement.

MDCG partners with NHS Trusts and independent healthcare organisations to address elective backlog pressures, improve RTT performance and create meaningful additional capacity across outpatient, diagnostic and treatment pathways. As a CQC-registered provider, every service we deliver operates within a robust governance framework — ensuring safe, high-quality care for every patient we see.
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The Challenges We Help Address

  • Long outpatient waiting lists and missed RTT standards
  • Diagnostic bottlenecks delaying onward pathway management
  • Pressure on cancer pathways and two-week-wait backlogs
  • Limited clinic or theatre capacity within the existing estate
  • Workforce vacancies preventing additional in-house activity
  • Underutilised estate and equipment outside core hours
  • Patients waiting between stages of a pathway
  • Insufficient capacity for weekend or extended-day activity
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What we provide

Outpatient Services

Our outpatient teams provide new and follow-up appointments, one-stop clinics, virtual and phone consultations, advice, remote reviews, treatment planning, consent, follow-up, discharge, and PIFU, all within your facilities and aligned with your standards.

Waiting List Validation and Clinical Triage

Before activity begins, we verify your waiting list by reviewing referral info, prioritising and risk-assessing patients, removing duplicates or unsuitable referrals, identifying direct-to-test options, and converting suitable patients to remote review or PIFU pathways.

Cancer Pathway Support

We offer comprehensive support for suspected cancer referrals and two-week-wait pathways, including Faster Diagnosis Standard, clinical triage, assessment, diagnostics, results review, MDT input, treatment planning, and referrals. Our teams are experienced in meeting cancer pathway timelines and escalation needs.

Elective Treatment Capacity

Where treatment capacity is required, our consultant-led teams deliver minor procedures, day-case treatment and theatre lists, alongside follow-up and post-treatment review, histology review and treatment outcome reporting.

Specialty Capabilities

Dermatology

  • General dermatology and suspected skin cancer pathways
  • Two-week-wait clinics and teledermatology
  • Advice and guidance, clinical triage and minor procedures
  • Biopsy pathways, patch testing and histology review

Gastroenterology

• New and follow-up outpatient clinics and referral triage
• Straight-to-test and suspected gastrointestinal cancer pathways
• Surveillance pathways, endoscopy referral and results review
• IBD and general gastroenterology pathways

Ear, Nose and Throat

• General ENT clinics and suspected head and neck cancer pathways
• One-stop assessment and nasendoscopy
• Audiology-supported pathways, minor procedures and theatre conversion

Audiology

  • Adult and paediatric hearing assessment and audiometry
  • Tympanometry, diagnostic audiology and hearing aid assessment
  • Newborn hearing screening support, tinnitus assessment and vestibular pathways
  • Onward referral and ENT-supported pathway management

Ophthalmology

• General ophthalmology, cataract pathways and glaucoma review
• Medical retina, diagnostic assessment and pre-operative review
• Day-case treatment and post-operative follow-up

Urology

• General urology, haematuria pathways and suspected urological cancer
• Lower urinary tract symptoms, prostate assessment and stone review
• Cystoscopy pathways, biopsy support and day-case treatment

Gynaecology

• General gynaecology, abnormal bleeding pathways and suspected cancer referrals
• Colposcopy, hysteroscopy, diagnostic assessment and minor procedures
• Theatre conversion and follow-up

Trauma and Orthopaedics

• General orthopaedic assessment, hand and upper limb, and musculoskeletal review
• Surgical decision-making, injection and minor procedure clinics
• Pre-operative review and day-case and theatre pathways

Plastic Surgery

• General plastic surgery assessment, skin lesion pathways and hand surgery
• Minor procedures, day-case surgery and post-operative review

General Surgery

• General surgical assessment, hernia and gallbladder pathways
• Minor procedures, day-case surgery and post-operative follow-up

Vascular Surgery

• Varicose vein assessment, one-stop consultation and Doppler
• Endovenous treatment, sclerotherapy, open surgical treatment and post-treatment
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Medical Outpatient Specialties

• Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine, Neurology, Rheumatology, Pain Management, Care of the Elderly, General Medicine

Operational Pathway

Referral validation, assessment and patient selection.
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Treatment planning and procedure delivery.
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Recovery, discharge and results review.
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Outcome reporting and onward management.
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As a CQC-registered provider, MDCG operates all elective care services within a comprehensive governance framework. Clinical oversight is provided by specialty-specific clinical leads, and all MDCG clinicians are subject to robust pre-engagement checks covering professional registration, revalidation status, indemnity, DBS and mandatory training.

Governance Framework

What to Expect

• Reduced waiting lists and improved RTT performance

• Improved cancer pathway timelines

• Increased clinic and theatre utilisation

• Reduced unnecessary follow-up activity

• Improved patient experience

• Clear activity and outcome reporting throughout

Get in Touch

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    Every patient deserves timely care.

    Our clinically led teams help you make the most of your clinics and theatres by providing additional services on weekends and evenings. This allows you to increase your capacity and deliver care more efficiently.

    Our consultants and nurses integrate seamlessly with your staff so that patients are seen quickly, all while upholding the highest standards of quality, safety, and governance.

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    0203 846 3333
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