8 in 10 NHS hospitals are treating FEWER patients now than before Covid

8 in 10 NHS hospitals are treating FEWER patients now than before Covid The majority of NHS hospitals in England are still clearing fewer patients off their waiting lists than they were before Covid, MailOnline analysis shows.

Roughly 287,000 elective procedures, such as hip and knee ops, were carried out during January.

Yet 300,000-plus were performed during the same month in 2020 — two months before the pandemic hit Britain and caused NHS waiting lists to spiral to a record high. The Daily Mail