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Sep 2021
Survey finds 20 per cent of adults in Britain have been forced to use private healthcare during pandemic
A survey has revealed that one in five people in the UK have been forced to use private healthcare since the start of the pandemic.
NHS waiting lists have already spiralled to record levels, with 5.6 million patients in England now waiting for treatment.
Charity Engage Britain found 840 out of 4,000 people surveyed said they were left with no choice but to pay for their own care. 1,120 said they had to fight for NHS treatment and 1,000 said the increasing waiting times had impacted their mental health.
Professor Stephen Powis, NHS England’s national medical director, said “NHS staff have worked tirelessly over the pandemic, caring for 450,000 patients with the virus in hospital, which has inevitably had a knock-on effect on less urgent care and created a backlog, but staff are also now pulling out all the stops to recover services and help more people as they come forward for care.
“During June and July, the NHS delivered millions more tests, checks, treatments and operations than we did last summer, while the health service is also currently treating more than ten times the number of patients with Covid in hospital compared to this time last year.”
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Posted by Tony May, Partner/head of Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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