How the 18-week RTT clock works: starts, stops and new clocks
A practical guide to clock starts, stops, did-not-attend rules and the validation errors that most often distort a waiting list.
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Practical writing on healthcare administration, data and informatics.
Guides and articles on how patient pathways, operational data and healthcare information actually work, written for learners, career changers and the organisations that train them.
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Why healthcare administration training needs practice, not just theory
The gap between knowing a process and doing it, and what effective practical training looks like.
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Why MedX trains with synthetic patient data, never real records
How fictional patients, reserved phone ranges and non-NHS identifiers keep realistic training safe.
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Short introductions to the subjects behind each learning pathway. Start with the one closest to your goal.
- Healthcare Administration
Understanding patient administration
How appointments, referrals, records and administrative workflows support the wider patient journey.
Healthcare Administration pathway - Healthcare Administration
PAS, EPR and healthcare systems
Why organisations use several systems, and where administrative and clinical information is created.
See it in the MedX Simulator - Healthcare Data & Analytics
Healthcare analytics for beginners
Why row meaning, data quality and healthcare context matter before building charts or dashboards.
Data & Analytics pathway - Healthcare Informatics
How healthcare data moves from record to report
The journey from operational systems through standards, datasets and storage to reporting.
Healthcare Informatics pathway - Healthcare Informatics
SNOMED CT, ICD-10 and OPCS-4
The different roles of clinical terminology and classifications in healthcare information.
Healthcare Informatics pathway - RTT & Waiting Lists
RTT pathways explained
Referral-to-treatment concepts, waiting lists, pathway validation and the role of operational data.
RTT & Waiting List Management pathway
Career guides
Understand the kind of work you want to move towards, and the evidence you need to show for it.
Healthcare standards, policies and recruitment processes change. Where a topic depends on current national or local rules, always check the official guidance as well.
Career routes across administration, data and informatics
How administrative, pathway, data and informatics roles connect across a healthcare career.
Learning pathwaysTurning experience into evidence
How CVs, supporting statements and interviews use different kinds of evidence.
Career SupportTurning practical learning into capability evidence
How simulated work and analytical tasks can be documented accurately as training evidence.
Capability evidence
For individuals
Move from reading to practice with the 8-week programme and the MedX Simulator.
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