Waiting on the waiting list, but what for?

Waiting on the waiting list, but what for? The current waiting list in England makes for grim reading – in September 2022 it was more than 7 million , up by 1.2 million since September last year, and 2.6 million over the past three years (i.e., before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic). But what are these people waiting for? The King's Fund