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Sep 2021
Postcode lottery for children revealed as hundreds in some areas face 12 month waiting list for NHS treatment
Doctors have warned the pandemic has had a ‘very detrimental effect’ on children as paediatric staff were redeployed to treat adult Covid patients. Analysis of official figures has revealed that there are currently nearly 268,000 children under the age of 16 on waiting lists in England. 72,458 of these have been waiting longer than…