Record 4.6million people are now on NHS waiting list in England

Record 4.6million people are now on NHS waiting list in England NHS England data show that more people than ever are waiting for operations or waiting too long for cancer appointments as the health service scrambles to work through its backlog. The Daily Mail

See also:

• 'Roughly 1 in 12 people in England are awaiting NHS treatment' The King's Fund
• Nuffield Trust: Significant pressure building up as waiting list exceeds record numbers Nuffield Trust
• Covid-19: NHS waits at record high as second wave hits care BBC News
• 50,000 fewer men were urgently referred for suspected prostate cancer during pandemic The Daily Mail
• NHS England waiting times reached record high in January The Guardian
• More than 300,000 NHS patients waiting over a year for routine surgery The Independent