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Waiting lists expected to reach 5.8m by end of 2024
New analysis shows that waiting lists are expected to reach 5.8 million by the end of 2024, up from 4.4 million in 2019 and 2.5 million in 2010.
According to projections based on official data, the figures are being used by Labour to highlight the impact that five more years of a Conservative government will have on the NHS.
Further analysis shows that the number of people waiting more than two months for cancer treatment is projected to reach 47,554 in 2024, up from 29,732 on 2018, and up almost 30,000 on 2010 when just 13,357 waited more than two months for treatment. Additionally, the number of people waiting more than four hours in A&E is projected to reach 448,525 a month in 2024, up on 320,034 in October 2019 and up 41,231 in November 2010.
Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said: “If the Tory demolition of our NHS continues, it will be millions of patients waiting longer and longer in pain, and thousands of cancer sufferers with their lives at risk who will pay the price.
“If the Tories win on Thursday [General Election date] it will mean five more years of ballooning waiting lists, more patients languishing on trolleys in hospital corridors, and people with cancer enduring even longer waits for vital treatment. The very future of our NHS is at stake on Thursday. Labour will give the NHS the rescue plan it needs and bring waiting lists down to secure quality care for all.”
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