Friday 11 December 2020

Covid: NHS long waits 100 times higher than before

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. BBC News

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