England’s NHS Waiting List Hits 5.6 Million
Few will be surprised to read that the number of people in England alone waiting to begin hospital treatment has risen again to a record high. 5.6 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of July, an increase of almost half a million from the end of April. And the figure will not stop rising yet, with the Institute of Fiscal Studies estimating that the waiting list could reach 14 million by next autumn. The Guardian has more.
A total of 5.6 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of July, according to figures from NHS England. This is the highest number since records began in August 2007 and includes those waiting for hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery.
The number of people having to wait more than 52 weeks to start treatment stood at 293,102 in July 2021, down from 304,803 in the previous month, but more than three times the number waiting a year earlier, in July 2020, which was 83,203. …
The data shows the total number of people admitted for routine treatment in hospitals in England in July 2021 was 259,642, up 82% from a year earlier (142,818), although this reflects lower-than-usual figures for July 2020, which were affected by the first wave of the Covid pandemic. The equivalent figure for July 2019, before the pandemic, was 314,280.
NHS England said many more tests and treatments had been delivered this summer compared with last, while hospitals cared for thousands more patients with Covid. It said there were 3.9 million diagnostic tests and 2.6 million patients started consultant-led treatment in June and July, compared with 2.7 million tests and 1.6 million treatments over the same time last year. …
NHS England also pointed to data showing that almost half a million people were checked for cancer in June and July, among the highest numbers on record. …
The new data showed that more than 325,000 patients in England had been waiting more than six weeks for a key diagnostic test in July. A total of 325,229 patients were waiting for one of 15 standard tests, including an MRI scan, non-obstetric ultrasound or gastroscopy.
The equivalent number waiting for more than six weeks in July 2020 was 489,797, while pre-pandemic in July 2019 there were 37,206.
Tim Mitchell, the Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons, said the overall data showed 7,980 patients waiting more than two years for treatment. The longest waits were for trauma and orthopaedic treatment such as hip and knee replacements, followed by general surgery such as gallbladder removals and hernia operations.
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Don’t worry, the nearly £40 billion incompetently/fraudulently wasted on track and trace (and could have been used on the utterly inefficient NHS and the waiting lists) will be reimbursed with the new NI tax – sorted!
Track or trace what the hell is that !!
bundles of untrackable and untraceable taxpayer cash transferred to “chums”
And they can still afford a pointless new railway.
Absolutely
But this rancid corrupt government and the nhs has the money for this:-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/08/nhs-spends-millions-hiring-army-200000-bureaucrats/
sorry behind a paywall but the headline says it all.
Australians are donkeys in front of a carrot if they don’t see through this attempt to coerce people into getting jabbed twice!
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-sydney-pub-boost-jab.html
Locked-down Sydney residents could enjoy a beer at the pub as soon as next month if the double-dose vaccination rate hits 70 percent, under an official “roadmap to freedom” released on Thursday.
Beer Macht Frei!
We shouldn’t be surprised, they were treating the “Aboriginal Australians\” pretty badly for a long time.
does Toby read or refer to anything other than left leaning or hard left, failed MSM rags?
Looking through the last dozen posts, >60% have been sourced from the Groan and the “eye” Hardly tomes of significant standing or truth.
And they’re never worth reading in full.
The Groan is not ‘left leaning’. It’s recent history has, in major political terms : consistently attacked Corbyn, supported the LibDems and censored analysis of the activities of the Israel Lobby (indefatigably right wing, friend of the security services and noted for its attacks on non-conforming jews).
Factually, the main quoted MSM organs here are the Telegraph, Mail and Spectator.
And here we have a perfect example of why the left-right paradigm is such an efficient tool. Left suppression, right suppression… who cares? It’s all suppression. The reason why the two of you are arguing instead of forming a common front against the anti-humanitarian piece of trash that is the Guardian is not because you don’t agree on whether the Guardian is good or bad. But rather, you can’t agree on how the Guardian is bad. Interesting, isn’t it? I’m sure the bad guys would much rather you argue over semantics than actually stand up to them together.
To be fair, I’ve never seen the Socialist Worker quoted. I wonder what they do say about all this, seeing as I saw them at a London demo.
In my opinion, The Guardian has never been the same since it was taken over by the NWO muppets in 2008 who got rid of its independent editorial board to promote propaganda, lies and deceit in favour of a global elite agenda. 100% controlled opposition in the guise of cuddly liberalism.
The tax-dodging trust-funded pro-tax green-promoting paper subsidised by those selling cars (autotrader)
Supporting a Big Pharma coup d’etat and pro-lockdown narrative is liberal now?!
Looks like all is going to plan, another milestone achieved for ‘The Project’.
Next steps: Borrow zillions more from than private banking elite and outsource the NHS to private US management companies. Nothing will change except the illusion that something is being done to ‘fix’ the NHS.
The problem is that the NHS subsidises ill health. Until it stops being tax subsidised and without customer choice it will continue to be the murderous disaster with PR it’s been since the start.
The NHS was very good for maybe 50-60-70 years. Could have stayed that way, could have been rescued by Corbyn.
Communism has never been tried it just needs to right people to run it.
I’m sure you thought Cuba was really well run the first few years (it’s gone from richest to near poorest in region, next to un-protectorate haiti)
cries of oh bloody Corbyn !!by peopple who when quizzed are not quite sure whats wroung with him .Im surprised the Daily Mail in the absence of ay real wrong doing from Jeremy didnt just publish a headline that said Corbyn is a Bastard .Millioms would have believed it without question anyway save the NHS blah blah blah wear mask wash your hands (but theyre clean !) and keep a safe distance (from politicians )
i know how to fix the NHS sack its management almost completely and re invest those savings in nurses ,beds quipment .Can an idea be too simple to work or is this because the gravy train would wobble off the tracks
So, about 10% of the population is on a waiting list.
And they claim that it’ll be about a quarter of the population by this time next year.
Is the nation this unhealthy?
Around 75% of the population between 45 and 74 are overweight or obese, going by 2019 NHS numbers: Ref
Lockdowns have scared people to death. Some have lost jobs or chunks of their income, become suicidal, turned to drink and drugs etc who otherwise may have been healthy too.
What i find it hard to figure out is how after about a year or so of interrupted health care we have 4 o 5 years waiting lists.What happened
Glad I stayed home to save lives and protect the NHS. Imagine what might have happened if I hadn’t!
Thank you, NHS!
Lockdown causes waiting list to grow.
Growing waiting lists cause more pressure on NHS.
More pressure on NHS means it can’t cope.
NHS can’t cope means it needs to be ‘saved’.
‘Save the NHS’ – another lockdown.
Cue the sheep outside every Thursday evening clapping the NHS.
That political Ouroboros is a perpetual emotion machine.
Oh is this because of that pretend Chinese death virus that nobody checked and then the wordl went completely mental closing all the healht care establishments at the evemt of a health scare or am i thinking about soemthing else
Think of the tune to “it’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming, football’s coming home”……
Now transpose it to the NHS version – “we’re saving lives, we’re saving lives, we’re saving, we are saving lives”.
Three jabs in my arm, never stopped me dreaming.
Don’t worry. 42 bureaucrats will deal with the backlog, while the rest of the NHS self-isolates.
The only information worth reading in full:
By LCAHub / 9 September 2021