Waiting in healthcare: the time to act might be later.

As an interdisciplinary research group exploring time and waiting in healthcare, we were interested to read the recent pseudo-systematic review by Ford and colleagues,1 which investigated studies claiming: “The time to act is now.” This humorous piece has some interesting serious resonances with our own project, Waiting Times (Wellcome Trust 205400/A/16/Z), which explores what it means to wait within healthcare beyond perennial and understandable concerns with waiting lists. We examine …