The NHS waiting list for routine operations has topped 7 million for the first time, leaving 1 in 8 people in England waiting for treatment. The number out of work due to long-term sickness is at a record high of 2.5m.
The NHS may be popular with politicians but it no longer is with the public – and with good reason, according to a new report from think tank Civitas.
The number of patients waiting for routine hospital treatment in England has soared to a new record of 6.18 million, as ambulance and emergency department waits also reach all-time highs.
NHS waiting lists for routine operations have hit yet another record high of 6.1 million, the first official data for 2022 show, as the pandemic backlog fails to clear.
NHS waiting lists will not start to fall for two years, Sajid Javid has said, with more than 300,000 people facing waits of over a year for treatment, compared with 1,600 before the pandemic – a nearly 200-fold rise.
The NHS backlog sits at a record 5.8 million patients who are waiting to receive routine, and perhaps life-saving treatment.
People living in England's poorer regions are almost twice as likely to have to wait more than 12 months for hospital treatment – and waiting lists are growing more quickly in these areas than elsewhere.
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a parent who had a terrible experience with NHS Scotland. His six month-old son developed serious breathing difficulties, but he couldn't get an ambulance for 12 hours.
