According to NHS England official statistics operations across a broad range of surgeries rose from 4.69 million to 4.95 million, an increase of 250,000 in just a month, says Express article.
These statistics show the true cost of the blinkered Covid-19 only rules at hospitals during the pandemic. Who can guess how many extra cancer deaths, heart disease deaths and deaths from other illnesses will result from the gridlock experienced by the NHS while trying to re-book appointments and get treatment back on track. There will be many years of distress and heartache for families for the future.
To try and offset this disastrous situation the Government has pledged an extra £160 million towards cutting waiting times.
A very small drop in the ocean compared to the hundreds of billions thrown at Covid-19 to the exclusion of everything else.
300,000 patients were found to be waiting more than six weeks for key diagnostic tests, according to NHS data, in March. The equivalent number in March 2020 was 85,446.
A quote from Daily Express columnist Dr. Rosemary Leonard reads. “These are awful figures and it will be years before the list starts to go down.” A huge understatement and it leaves a enormous door open to private medicine to scoop up business from the NHS, funnelling NHS money to private medicine.
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