The cancer patient backlog in the NHS – caused in part by the "stay at home, protect the NHS" drive – could take more than a decade to clear, according to new research – and thousands more will be lost along the way.
Record numbers of children and young people are seeking access to mental health services, according to analysis by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and an "unprecedented" number of children are waiting for care.
A drop in emergency referrals for cancer during lockdown – partly caused by the "stay at home, protect the NHS" message – is likely to result in an extra 10,000 deaths from the disease, according to a new study.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor writes that "NHS managers at the highest level have repeatedly been caught out concealing important information or distorting published data".
The Government may impose mask mandates, vaccine passports and another lockdown if Covid hospitalisations increase. But almost a quarter of 'Covid inpatients' are actually in hospital for something else, figures show.
We're publishing another terrific post on the Daily Sceptic by Charlotte Niemiec. This one is about the unseemly haste with which the Government raised National Insurance and the flimsy rationale for doing so.
England's NHS waiting list has risen to a new high of 5.6 million, with almost 300,000 people waiting for more than 52 weeks to start treatment.
Frontline NHS workers will be barred from seeing patients or could lose their jobs if they don't get vaccinated against Covid, according to reports, with a consultation on mandatory vaccination due to be published today.
The was a spike in the number of mental health referrals in the U.K. in March 2021 compared to February 2020, before the onset of lockdowns. At the same time, the number of patients actually receiving care has fallen.
Almost 1.2 million people in England alone are being forced to wait for at least six months to access vital NHS services – nearly five times the number recorded in 2019. And matters will get worse before they get better.
