More than 7million people in England are now waiting for routine NHS ops such as hip and knee replacements, grim data revealed today.
Leading experts fear the 'grim milestone' — the equivalent of one in eight people — will only get topped as the pressures of winter, Covid and flu

The backlog is up from 6.8m last month and marks the highest total since NHS records began in 2007. Almost 390,000 patients have been forced to endure year-long waits for their treatment, often while in serious

Separate analysis by the BBC released suggests the NHS is carrying out fewer operations and 스포츠분석 인방티비 treatments than before the pandemic, despite pledges to shrink the ev
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st. In the past year, an average of nearly 257,500 inpatient treatments, including hip and knee replacements, have been performed each month - roughly 12 per cent lower than the year be
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emic.Damning monthly performance stats from the NHS also revealed that more than 30,000 patients faced 12-hour waits in A&E — a record high.

Meanwhile, doctors on the frontline have claimed that patients have faced eight-hour waits for ambulances in
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ountry. The NHS waiting list for routine operations has breached 7million for the first time ever.

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