Referral to treatment times in the National Health Service of England: A five-year analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and socioeconomic deprivation and future implications for Ear, Nose and Throat service delivery

• Dimitrios Spinos ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dxs548@student.bham.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-2947

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• Thomas Beech,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

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• Christopher Coulson,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3991-5473

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• Laura French,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

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• Sheila Greenfield,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Ian Litchfield,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Paul Nankivell,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Richard Allen,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Open University, Patient Partner, United Kingdom

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• Jameel Muzaffar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0269

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