In striving to “protect the NHS”, we have instead placed it under record levels of pressure. The number of people waiting to start hospital treatment in England alone continues to rise and has passed five million for the first time. The number waiting for more than a year remains significantly higher than before Covid – and lockdowns – began. The number of people who actually require treatment will be higher still since many are expected to be living with undiagnosed diseases, such as breast cancer, having been reluctant to burden the health service with check-ups during the pandemic. The Guardian has more.
NHS England’s latest set of monthly performance figures, published on Thursday, show that the waiting list stood at 5,122,017 in April – up 171,720 in a month.
The total has risen from the 4.95 million who were on it in March, which was itself almost 252,000 up on the 4.698 million recorded in February – a month-on-month rise of 5.4%.
The number of people being forced to wait at least a year for treatment in hospital, especially surgery, has fallen for the first time in over a year but remains a serious problem. Thursday’s figures also show that 385,490 people have now been waiting more than 52 weeks, 50,637 down on the 436,127 who were in that position last month.
Such long waits are a new phenomenon. In contrast, in March last year – before Covid triggered a suspension of much NHS care – just 3,097 patients had faced such an unusually long delay.
Ministers, NHS chiefs, medical groups and health charities are worried that growing numbers of patients are facing lengthening waits for vital care including cancer treatment, a hip or knee replacement, heart operations and surgery to remove cataracts to improve eyesight.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Professor Karol Sikora, on Lucy Johnston’s “Sketch notes on a pandemic” podcast, says: “I’ve been working in oncology for nearly 50 years and I’ve never seen a crisis like this before.”
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If it saves on life, aka death from Covid….
You know the bill I want to see enacted but Parliament. That the Cabinet members be required to attend every funeral of a person who died because of delayed treatments from the last 15 months.
Right now this whole thing is cost free to them. Hancock will get a book deal probably. If they had to look those mourning their lost one eye to eye, we’d never have another lockdown in history.
Bad enough the poor bore the weight of keening the wealthy safe and happy during lockdown. The fact the young who could have been saved for the sake of poorly protecting the old and sick is truly unethical.
Get Better, Go Private (*).
*when they’re allowed to reopen as the N
HCS has co-opted all the facilities and not used them.And none of those private beds were ever used. Simply insurance for a potential overrun. Like keeping all the taxi’s on hold in case Boris and Matt might ever need to be taken to hospital.
Neighbour had her breast cancer op in a private hospital on Monday, so they are open (at least some if them are).
She was told she’d have a six week wait on NHS to start chemo. Went private and started it the same week. If the op has been successful all her treatment will be complete before NHS would have started it.
Fantastic result
Knighthoods all round please
Medals for NHS workers
Mock ye not!
My trust has sent a specially designed custom made pin badge to every member of staff to say Thank you to them. What a colossal waste of money.
So I have my Medal…
Wear it with pride
Careful you don’t get jabbed with it!
We have a choice of a days pay or annual leave. No medal so far!
This reminds me when, years ago, 30-40 years plus IIRC, it was decided NHS staff should have a reward. I don’t know if all hospitals adopted the same reward but the local hospitals reward was – a Mars Bar!!! I kid you not – and it had to be signed for!!! It certainly helped staff to work, rest and play.
Someone’s got to make TikTok dance videos.
This is what “saving the NHS” looks like. Great job!
“Ministers, NHS chiefs, medical groups and health charities are worried that growing numbers of patients are facing lengthening waits for vital care”
All of which we told them about 15 months ago and which would have been included in a cost/benefit analysis if they’d bothered to do it.
I hope the Guardian is pleased with itself.
FTW
Wouldn’t it be a shame if Wancock had to wait a year for treatment for something like Anthrax, The Black Death, or Ebola.
He wears his mask silly, don’t you know you cannot die from a virus if you wear the mask.
just ask that communist psychologist who currently has has the turn of arm up boris johnsons capacious backside
Piles.
What a mess, plus they are finally starting to seriously question the fact that very ill elderly people were removed from critical care back to their homes. Which inevitably hastened their demise, they don’t even know the connection to ‘covid’ as it was diagnosed remotely by GP’s who didnt go in to check and then no post mortems. Many were asked to sign DNR, what was the rush?
They won’t question it. Instead they will congratulate themselves on how many millions they save from the social care budget. It is also why they don’t give a shit about the numbers of elderly in care homes who died after being jabbed.
I’ve worked in the private sector all my life and sometimes when someone makes a mistake or things go wrong we joke “Nobody Died”
But Wancock surely has the blood of many people on his hands with his clusterfck of fcktardery
It’s truly criminal he gets away with such incompetence!
Colloquial English and good old sweariness is bloody great!
But he will, they all will, its a club they protect each other because if one falls they all go,and guess what? we get to fund them all, whilst they wait for their peerage, their book deal, their Bill Gates funded foundation
WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE PREDICTED THIS?!
I wonder…
Me
Not could, did
Good to see the NWO project team are achieving their milestones.
I bet the same situation exists in (at least) Canada, NZ, India and Australia.
Of course it does – they are all in lockstep with each other
You’ve got it.
Not only that, but we’ve a Dark Winter ahead.
NHS needs so much protection that we should wrap it in cotton wool, put it into storage and create an institution which helps sick people. How’s that for an idea?
We protected the NHS, just forgot to protect the patients
I think this may always have been the plan. Create a phoney pandemic to create a huge waitlist so that the NHS will be TRULY unable to cope with actual sickness to the extent where the only solution is to sell the lot (and our data) to Hancock’s and Valance’s pals.
Jail for the lot of them.
Yes I wonder that too. That’s one of the many reasons the ‘Left’ have entirely failed by supporting restrictions. Whilst the thick masses are wailing around double masking and triple vaxxing, the NHS is being sold off. It was happening already but now Centene is really moving. I don’t give a shit any more. I used to think it was really important to keep the NHS out of the hands of US corporations. I still don’t like it as I don’t madly want to see global billionaires getting even richer but this 16 months has made me hate people so much that I now feel that the fucking morons who clapped on doorsteps while handwringing about sadlideaths and demanding harder longer lockdowns can go fuck themselves and die without treatment from their NHS-god. Bunch of selfish thick fuckers that they are.
I don’t think the NHS is being sold off but TURNED OFF.
We havent but they have. The people running the NHS right up to Hancock. 500k added to the waiting list in one year. The waiting list was massive already.
But its okay they can spend billions on fake testing, useless and dangerous “vaccines” and covid marshals…
They wont invest it in new hospitals and better health facilities though.
If you havent realised yet this is the plan. It is not by accident or “mistakes made”. Its the final chapter in the Globalists takeover of this Earth.
Has nobody in this list of worried Ministers, NHS chiefs, medical groups and health charities ever heard of, or understood, the concept of Cause and Effect?
With the possible (?) exception of some health charities, all of them bear greater or lesser degrees of complete responsibility for engineering this medical disaster. Missing from the list are “modellers”, who are perhaps the most guilty.
Heaven help the useless NHS, and the rest of us, if the experimental “vaccines” prove, after the few months they have been trialled on millions of guinea-pigs, to be toxic enough to require a lot of treatment, for many people.
The “butcher’s bill” from the abysmal management of the pandemic and the lockdown obsessions will make the Covid casualty list look rather modest by comparison.
Add in MSM. Sure, the government FORCED them (with threat of being taken off air) to all sing the same hysterical tune (to “encourage compliance by increasing the level of personal threat using hard-hitting emotional messaging”) BUT more of them really should have resisted – and DONE SOME ACTUAL JOURNALISM. It has been left to The Spectator and a handful of others. Toby Young(you know,him), Talk Radio, et al and great minds like retired Supreme Court Judge QC Lord Jonathan Sumption.
MEANWHILE, I continue to do my part alongside my wife and two kids by Standing In The Park at 10am every Sunday (find us on Facebook). More passers-by are now starting to engage with us – in ways other than outright derision and vilification.
Good on you. In the end, what you’re doing is the only way to reach the public, given the disgusting level of censorship & smearing.
Perhaps we should all clap on our doorsteps for this achievement.
If all it takes for the Tories to destroy the NHS is to tell everyone they’re doing everything they can to save it, while making it focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others so the staff can make TikTok videos…
…then we’re too stupid to have an NHS.
Agreed. We are.
Anyone that WANTS a state run treatment rationing system is stupid in the first place.
Five million waiting.
Cancer deaths.
Screening suppressed.
Surgeries locked.
Appointments unattainable.
Dentistry unavailable.
Old people turfed out of hospital to die in ‘care” homes.
Thank you, National Hell Service.
Rendering the NHS unusable, along with dismantling local retail economies, was one of the objectives of the exercise.
Slightly off topic but an encouraging story. I’ve been away for a few days and opposite the hotel we stopped at, they set up a mobile testing centre on a car park.
Generally we left the hotel before the centre opened and returned after it closed, but this morning whilst loading the car the centre opened and I saw 4 cars enter. When I finished loading at 9:30 there was nobody there and the “testers” looked like they were settling down for a long boring day.
I’m one of those people. 1 November I was hit with a horrible kidney stone (I’ve had hundreds and this was the worst ever). For 6 months nothing due to lockdown rules. I finally was approved for an x-ray late April. I passed out from the pain on the floor of the hospital and that got me schedule for lithotripsy on the right side. A few weeks later and…relief from the 1.2cm stone there.
But the 1.0 cm stone on my left…I’ve been tossed back in the queue and it will likely be another 6 months. Another 6 months of agony that made me want to jump off a building at times. I’ve never had to wait even 1/6 of that time before March 2020. Now, who knows.
Personally I’d like to stuff my stones down Matt Hancock’s kidney and see how he likes waiting 6 months. Somehow I think things would change pretty quickly!
Long shot I know but…should you ever manage the stones in Wancock’s kidneys thing, we need pictures posted here please !
… to be honest I’ve always though the NHS was a bit sh’t anyway
My Gran and Grandad and mum and stepmum all died too soon after doctors couldn’t be bothered to investigate / misdiagnosed their cancers til it was too late.
don’t get ill folks.. with a real illness… and don’t break any bones.. or get cataracts.. or…
The nhs is totally random now. I’ve got 2 uncles, both 94, 1 in Edinburgh, 1 in Durham, 1 had cataracts in both eyes, got 1 eye done in February, the other one they said to wait 3 months after, got it done a month ago. The one in Durham has got prostate cancer, just diagnosed and gout, he’s got a nurse coming in every 2 weeks to do blood tests and the GP actually chases them up!
My mum waited well over a year for cataracts.. she is now going to France to have it done.
I saw the headline. I haven’t read it, yet, but just thought F off!
It’s much worse that is being published . Turn over in outpatient and theatre is decimated with Covid19 protocols. ie capacity is poor and remember we do not have efficient capacity in ITU. It is not acceptable to criticise the NHS – but GP are hiding , disease is hidden and rate of providing care in the future if Covid19 restrictions with in hospital transmission need investigation;the system is not fit for purpose.
Ministers and NHS chiefs and medical groups are worried. Really! Really! When these same Ministers and NHS chiefs were the very same ones supporting Lockdowns and the removal of the Health service for non covid sufferers by default. These people colluded with the Cabinet to cause the suffering and deaths of millions, they created this mess, they supported this mess, they can take the blame and responsibility for it. Worried! the only thing these people are worried about are themselves and their careers
I know many people who work in the NHS. I’ve told every one of them about the evidence that this entire event isa global fraud. None of them have deviated from their apparent beliefs.
My working assumption is that the NHS as we knew it is never coming back.
Why not build back better a health system which will work for a very much smaller population?
Because that’s where we’re going unless we take back our freedoms.
Indeed.
Dr Vernon Coleman was warning of this War and the Depopulation agenda last year and he has been proven correct.
The destruction of the NHS has been easy so poorly organised and led was it pre-“pandemic,” so the deaths that come from its destruction can be hidden behind the Covid banner.
The deaths from the poisonous injections will be hidden behind causes such as strokes, blood clots etc and an OVERWHELMED NHS.
Very convenient but Genocide is the plan.
NHS staff who go along with the government story are complicit in their own deaths.
I’ve no sympathy for the NHS whatsoever, since March 2020.
Clearly the waiting lists / backlogue can be used to support the “overwhelmed NHS” story over this coming Autumn / Winter.