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Feb 2021
Year long waits for routine surgery ‘worst since 2008’ in England
NHS England figures have shown that nearly 225,000 people in England have now waited for longer than a year for routine hospital treatment, the highest number since April 2008.
This includes people waiting for planned hip and knee surgery.
NHS England’s national medical director Professor Stephen Powis, said staff had worked incredibly hard to provide essential services during the pandemic.
He went on to say “Even in January, when hospitals admitted almost a third of all the Covid patients they have treated during the pandemic, they were treating twice as many patients with other conditions as they did for those with the virus over the month.
“But the NHS remains under significant pressure so it is vital that everyone continues to do all they can to stop the spread of the virus by staying at home and following the expert ‘hands, face, space’ guidance.”
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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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