For many of us, the NHS feels like a postcode lottery, as some areas are seeing more than one in eight patients stuck on a waiting list for a year or more
Despite Rishi Sunak's pledge to slash NHS delays, fresh analysis has suggested the number of patients waiting a year for treatment in England has risen by 15 per cent in the past year. In some areas, the number has nearly doubled.
By May 2023, this has increased to 385,022. The Lib Dems said the figures revealed a 'stark postcode lottery', with waits of a year far more common in some areas than others.Trafford Integrated Care Board and Manchester ICB in the North West were the worst affected areas, with close to 13 per cent of patients on an NHS waiting list for at least 12 months. In Brighton and Hove, as well as in Stockport, one in 10 patients had been waiting for care for at least a year in May.
"Instead, they keep rising with thousands of people left waiting in pain for the treatment they need. These figures reveal a stark postcode lottery, with some areas seeing more than one in eight patients who have been stuck on an NHS waiting list for a year or more."The Government's failure to get to grips with soaring NHS waiting times is causing untold suffering and damaging our economy by leaving people too sick to return to work.
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