NHS waiting lists increase by 400,000 after Rishi Sunak’s pledge to bring them down
Waiting for treatment: in fact, this image of people waiting in a corridor for treatment was taken in 2017 at a hospital Accident & Emergency department, but it serves to represent those waiting for scheduled treatment too, doesn’t it?
Rishi Sunak has failed in another pledge to help the people of the UK.
Has he become too preoccupied with helping his business colleagues who are embroiled in the Post Office scandal and Israel’s genocide of Gaza?
Here are the details of the latest mess:
Rishi Sunak has broken yet another pledge, after new data this morning revealed that NHS waiting lists have soared by 400,000, a year after the Prime Minister pledged to bring them down as one of his five pledges.
Data from NHS England shows 7.61 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of November, involving 6.39 million patients. Although the latest numbers show this was around 100,000 less than the previous month, it is still higher than the 7.19 million waiting list in January last year, when Sunak made his pledge to voters to bring down NHS waiting lists.
The Royal College of Nursing said: “Data released today shows the NHS waiting list remains extraordinarily high, with 400,000 more waits since the prime minister pledged to cut the numbers waiting more than a year ago.
“He can’t pull the wool over people’s eyes by claiming it’s down to strike action. Patients, staff and the public deserve better.”
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