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Year-long NHS waiting lists 100 times higher than February
New NHS England data shows that the number of patients in England waiting over a year for routine hospital care is now 100 times higher than before the pandemic.
There were just 1,600 year-long waiters in February, but nearly 163,000 out of the 4.4 million on the waiting list at the end of October had waited over 12 months for operations such as hip replacements.
The number of long waits is now at its highest level since 2008. Neil Mortensen, president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned that the situation, which he deemed a ‘national crisis’, could take two to three years to tackle.
There were some more encouraging details in the NHS England data, with the number of operations being done on the increase, average waits falling and Accident and Emergency attendances dropping during lockdown.
The number of coronavirus patients in hospital in England - currently 12,600, accounting for one in seven of all beds available - has shown a slight increase in recent days after several weeks of falls. Meanwhile, the number of cases being diagnosed has also stopped falling.
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