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The surgery cost Claire more than £10,000 with a private consultant - the same one she is on a three-year waiting list to see through the NHS. "This was the last option, it was desperation," she ...
In fact, in July 2024, the month of the general election, there were about 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list, according to non-emergency referral-to-treatment (RTT) data, in a ...
Prime minister breaking promise to bring waiting times down
Some treatments were removed from the total after a change in the way it is counted.
The NHS waiting list in England has hit a new record high, with almost 7.8 million people waiting for treatment, data shows.. An estimated 7.75 million people were waiting to start treatment at ...
‘Long waits for treatment are unacceptable and 20,000 children waiting over a year is unfathomable,’ warns Dr Camilla Kingdon NHS waiting list in England hits record 7.5 million Skip to main ...
NHS access is therefore controlled by medical priority rather than price mechanism, leading to waiting lists for both consultations and surgery, up to months long, although the Labour government of 1997-onwards made it one of its key targets to reduce waiting lists. In 1997, the waiting time for a non-urgent operation could be two years; there ...
The surgery figure is up by 48 per cent since April 2021 – a far bigger increase than was seen in the overall NHS waiting list, which grew by 36 per cent over the same period.