The Prime Minister made chopping NHS ready lists one among his priorities for this 12 months.
In January, Rishi Sunak promised that “lists will fall and folks will get the care they want extra rapidly”.
However figures now counsel that the variety of individuals in England ready to begin routine hospital therapy has risen to a brand new document excessive.
NHS England stated that round 7.4 million individuals had been ready to begin therapy on the finish of April
That was up from 7.3 million in March.
Most cancers waits are up too – with solely 78 p.c of sufferers seeing a specialist inside 2 weeks of an pressing GP referral.
That’s far under the 93% goal, with the royal faculty of radiologists warning that workers shortages throughout the UK are inflicting delays to care.
We’ve been talking to a most cancers affected person about her care.