NHS waiting list in Wales grows to record 743,000
"We've had to say it's our holiday money for several years," Linda said, after getting the hip replacement just two weeks after booking.
The Monmouthshire council worker said she also found out about Lithuania from other patients in Wales and had her surgery in July. "The inequality between those who can't and that [can is] a sad state of affairs," she added. "It's only through luck that we've managed to find the funds to go to Lithuania.Image caption,
But the treatment waiting list in Wales is now 60% higher than in February 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic.the number of patients in the UK opting for private one-off treatment was increasingThere were 69,000 self-funded treatments in the UK in the final three months of last year - a 39% rise from the same period before the pandemic.
"Goodness only knows where I'd be [without the surgery in Lithuania]," she said. "I wouldn't be walking. I think I'd be like the others... probably in a wheelchair."The latest NHS performance figures showed waits of more than a year rose to more than 181,000 in July
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