- NHS WAITING TIMES Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on December 10, 2020, 1:07 pm
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Covid: NHS long waits 100 times higher than before The number of patients in England waiting over a year for routine hospital care is now 100 times higher than before the pandemic, figures show. Nearly 163,000 out of the 4.4 million on the waiting list at the end of October had waited over 12 months for operations such as hip replacements. There were just 1,600 year-long waiters in February, NHS England data shows. The Royal College of Surgeons warned patients were being left in pain unable to carry on with "day-to-day life". "Yet again, these waiting time figures drive home the devastating impact Covid has had on wider NHS services," RCS president Prof Neil Mortensen said. It was a "national crisis" that could take two to three years to tackle, he added. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55260338 NHS Underfunded. Under resourced. Life in the UK is SO good under the Tories! It's a pity that Johnson took months to react to the arrival and presence of the virus in the country. |
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