Posted on 07/13/2018 7:15:16 AM PDT by Eddie01
The number of patients waiting longer than six months to start planned NHS hospital treatment has now topped 200,000, new figures revealed yesterday.
NHS England referral-to-treatment statistics for May revealed the exact number of patients to be 211,324 — 48.4 per cent higher than at the same time last year.
The total waiting list size is now estimated at 4.3 million.
Labour’s shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said newly appointed Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s first test was to “rapidly bring these waiting lists down.”
Mr Hancock has replaced Jeremy Hunt who replaced Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary earlier this week after the latter quit over the Prime Minister’s Brexit plans.
Mr Ashworth went on: “Today, the new Health Secretary learns the reality of what eight years of Tory cuts and privatisation means for patients.”
Royal College of Nursing chief executive Janet Davies said the figures should leave Mr Hancock “in no doubt as to the scale of the task ahead of him.”
And Royal College of Surgeons senior vice-president Susan Hill said six months was too long to wait for treatment, noting that some patients were likely to be in severe pain.
Hospitals must get their waiting lists under control before winter, when the situation could become even worse than last year, she warned.
Other referral-to-treatment statistics reveal that the government’s target of 92 per cent of patients being seen within 18 weeks has not been met since February 2016.
The figures show that 88.1 per cent of patients were seen within 18 weeks, compared with 90.4 per cent during the same period last year.
The figures also show June was A&E departments’ second-busiest month on record.
There were 2,091,318 A&E attendances last month, while the all-time peak — 2,161,779 — was the month before.
Hey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you want THIS for America?
yes, she does, with no waiting list for the elites, however!
Well, they have Free access to the hospital, treatment of course is another question.
“Hey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you want THIS for America? “
When Obama was confronted by a reporter with the fact that his tax policies would net less money he responded by saying, “It’s not about money. It’s about fairness.” (Which, in and of itself is a dumbfounding idea.) But, in answer to your question, sure that’s what she wants, because it’s not about health care or access. It’s about fairness. Besides, this time we will get it right.
Don't approve the Tests, Don't approve the treatment, encourage them to die.
And you thought we fought against those seeking a Master Race.
Death machine.
Stick her and The Bern at the back of the line
Not to worry. Those numbers will decrease as those waiting die off.
Socialist medicine and aging baby boomers are a toxic cocktail...
Trump says the VA is fixed. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination.
“...noting that some patients were likely to be in severe pain.”
OR DEAD!
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This is late term abortion forced on senior citizens and other adults in the UK.
The PC liberals push abortion on the unborn and this medical rationaing/killing action on the senior citizens.
Many people in America don’t realize what you have posted and what I have posted in this thread.
Cost Control and Population Control.
Don’t approve the Tests, Don’t approve the treatment, encourage them to die.
And you thought we fought against those seeking a Master Race.
This is an important brief history that involves Republicans, Democrats, and the Catholic Church.
It is well sourced and certainly NOT conspiracy theory stuff.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-vatican-bank-chief
Wow, very scary and this adds more elite players of the Deep State. Thanks!
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-vatican-bank-chief
I had an appointment with a dentist to put a crown in after a dental implant from months ago and they had to schedule one with another dentist in another office that day as the prep work was not done yet
I missed the call backs from the implant center....
Same day service!
The dentist there did what needed to be done and now I wait a week for the stitches to come out.
I am currently waiting on a call back to have the crown done the day afterward.
No waiting 6 months!
May explain why the British teeth are so bad!
Startling numbers
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