People in Poor Regions Almost Twice as Likely to Wait More than 12 Months for Hospital Treatment
People living in some of England’s poorer regions are more likely to be forced to wait longer to receive routine treatment on the NHS, according to a new analysis. Waiting lists are also growing at a faster rate in these areas, where people are less likely to be able to afford private healthcare. The Telegraph has the story.
Data from The King’s Trust and Healthwatch England found that 7% of people waiting for treatment in the poorest regions will wait more than 12 months.
However, for the most affluent areas, this figure is just 4%. …
From April 2020 to July 2021, waiting lists have swelled by 55%, on average, in the most deprived parts of the country compared with 36% in the richest areas.
Despite the efforts of NHS staff during the pandemic, the backlog has grown to 5.61 million people – almost one in every 10 people in England.
The NHS has now been told by the watchdog to ensure people have “interim support” in place while it tackles the record backlog of untreated patients.
The analysis comes as a poll Healthwatch England exposed the toll the waiting list is having on people’s physical and mental health.
A survey of 1,600 people who were either on the waiting list themselves or had a loved one in need of treatment, found that 54% said it was affecting their mental health while 57% said the wait was affecting their physical health.
And 48% did not have any support to manage their condition during their wait.
Almost one in five (18%) have already gone private for treatment or are considering it, but 47% said that paying for private treatment “was not an option”.
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Confirmation – but not news. The shit-show has seen a speeding up of the usual process of the upward transfer of resources.
… and even if some individuals can pay, and decide to, they’re not necessarily in the ‘rich’ bracket, but, on incomes around the median, have decided to do it because the waiting times are unbearable. I can think of two such cases.
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For the NHS, of course.
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It is not clear from the use of percentages whether this is due to people from poorer regions having a greater proportion in poor health or the NHS giving a worse service in poorer regions.
Both.
Would Healthwatch like to comment on the fudging of figures, the inappropriate use of ventilators, the inappropriate prescriptions for those in nursing homes, the promotion of useless masks within NHS institutions which cause distress and fatigue to many, etc?
Or are they just with the NHS agenda but give them more cash?
Again this is so predictable it hardly counts as news. People in deprived areas are less healthy and less able to afford private treatment. Unless you pour far more resources into deprived areas, it is almost inevitable they will have longer wait lists.
You’ve not answered the issue highlighted. Nothing like this is ‘inevitable’. Resources need to match demand better.
There’s a system for that called…
Paying.
Perhaps it’s actually not so straightforward. Research by the University of Cambridge in August this year found there were “significantly fewer full time doctors per 10,000 patients in areas of higher deprivation.”
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/worsening-gp-shortages-in-disadvantaged-areas-likely-to-widen-health-inequalities
Fewer doctors mean fewer referrals, so the waiting lists are – by definition – smaller. The research points out that the shortage of doctors in these areas is part compensated by a higher number of nurses and they will certainly be picking up the slack on an increasing number of minor procedures that are now carried out at local surgeries.
Fewer doctors also mean less help towards better health.
It’s something of a circular argument, I’ll grant you, but it’s not so easy as poor = ill.
Sorry this is slightly off topic but had to vent about this: The message from Israel is clear: Covid booster shots should be standard | David O’Connor | The Guardian
`The Guardian has been publishing pro vaccine propaganda since the start of this pandemic. In its latest 2+2=5 piece, the author is trying to tell us what a huge success the booster roll out has been in Israel. Seriously, WTAF??
I actually posted in the comments section of a similar piece a few weeks back. I put direct links to the government websites Vaers in the US and yellow card in the UK. The mods removed the comments within 2 minutes and kept doing so once I posted them again. Why would they try censor publicly available information of this nature? What can possibly be their thought process here?
I generally don’t have much time for conspiracy theories. However, one has to ask whether the fact the Guardian has received 200m+ from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a factor in it becoming a vaccine cheerleader.
Not off the real topic. Good call.
According to this Guardinoron, third jabs work.This is an admission that first and second jabs don’t work. In fact, the cretin says so.
You wonder what goes on in the poison box it calls a brain.
It’s a bit more specific: The Guardian claims booster jabs would essentially provide sterilizing immunity (strongly implying that they should be mandated for all of the world to Eradicate the virus !!1). Considering what is known so far, that’s an outright lie.
The Guardian is a shameful rag – a bag of servile shite that trades off its prior reputation for independent journalism. It’s a puppet that now jerks around to the establishment tune.
The Gates foundation money is part of it – but the death knell was tolled a decade ago, after the Snowden affair and when it abandoned its Trust status (you can read up on the detail). Its death was a significant event in the take-over of the MSM. There is nothing accidental about it, since it still feeds the idea that it is a haven of independent journalism.
It isn’t.
At one time Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) was on the board. I don’t think he still is.
Efforts during the sodding ‘pandemic’?
What efforts? Hospitals turfing out the old and helpless? GPs refusing to see patients?Cancer treatments stopped?
Get stuffed, Hell Service.
Don’t take pole-climbing political slime like Simon Stevens as the service as a whole.
Presumably ‘they’ see ‘twice’ as likely as a significant proportion, yet ‘four and half’ times as many vaccine deaths and reactions in 8 months as there have been in total over the last twenty years is apparently insignificant.
Basically if you’re poor you should want the NHS scrapped twice as much as everyone else.
No – you should want the current government in particular, and the governing class in general, scrapped.
That too. but scrap the failed NHS as a matter of priority.
The NHS hasn’t ‘failed’. The political controllers (many of whom are looking at money making privatisation opportunities) have forced it into the mire – along with the rest of the nation.
Money drives this.
The NHS ration of treatment has been inadequate for my needs several times.
Private Care has been excellent.
I hope everyone gets to only pay for their own healthcare needs rather than subsidise someone else’s ill health and thus get rubbish care when they could’ve afforded and thus received much better than wait for when the NHS staff decide you’re convenient enough to bother with.
As people are treated as undeserving supplicants rather than customers by OurNHS, i would be interesting to hear of anywhere else in the 1st world/ 2nd world where this degree of neglect occurs.
It appears to be peculiar to the Wah!NHS so far, with no reports from Switzerland,, Holland, Germany Austria, Japan Singapore etc of their health aystems neglecting their patients to that extent.
Wonder why that is🤔
The other systems haven’t had the political neoliberal jackboot on their neck to the same extent – from Blair to Johnson
Wot, for the past 40 years?
Why are Wah!NHS religous types so determined that ordinary Britons should not get the 1st world healthcare that Germans Dutch, Austrians, Swiss Japanese ordinary citizens get?