NHS backlog hits record high
The NHS waiting list in England has hit a record high as new figures show that more than a million patients are on more than one waiting list. The overall waiting list hit a new high of 7.77 million at the end of September – up from 7.75 million at the end of August, according to NHS England data. But officials have said this figure is actually made up of 6.5 million individual patients, meaning that more than a millionRead More