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Jun 2021
Hospital waiting list in England tops five million
Latest figures show that the number of people waiting for hospital treatment in England has topped five million for the first time.
The data from NHS England showed 5.12 million people had been waiting as at the end of April.
However, the number of patients facing waits of over a year has dropped for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, vice chair of the Royal Society for Public Health, who led the research, said the findings were “extremely worrying”.
He said “We know that for many conditions longer waiting times are associated with poorer long-term outcomes. Without urgent action targeting areas with the highest unmet need we risk a generation of patients living in poorer health.”
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Posted by Tony May, Partner/head of Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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