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Hospital waiting figures go up by 200,000 patients (UK NHS)
Morning Star UK ^ | Jul 13, 2018 | LAMIAT SABIN

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: hospital; nhs; uk; wait
Socialist Health Care.

Hey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you want THIS for America?

1 posted on 07/13/2018 7:15:16 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

yes, she does, with no waiting list for the elites, however!


2 posted on 07/13/2018 7:16:16 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Eddie01

Well, they have Free access to the hospital, treatment of course is another question.


3 posted on 07/13/2018 7:19:07 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Eddie01

“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.


4 posted on 07/13/2018 7:19:19 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Eddie01
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.

5 posted on 07/13/2018 7:21:46 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Eddie01

Death machine.


6 posted on 07/13/2018 7:23:31 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Eddie01

Stick her and The Bern at the back of the line


7 posted on 07/13/2018 7:31:11 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Eddie01

Not to worry. Those numbers will decrease as those waiting die off.


8 posted on 07/13/2018 7:32:39 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Socialist medicine and aging baby boomers are a toxic cocktail...


9 posted on 07/13/2018 7:58:14 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Eddie01

Trump says the VA is fixed. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination.


10 posted on 07/13/2018 8:17:33 AM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight to the comments.)
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To: Eddie01

“...noting that some patients were likely to be in severe pain.”

OR DEAD!


11 posted on 07/13/2018 9:01:07 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Eddie01

Bookmark


12 posted on 07/13/2018 9:55:46 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Eddie01

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.


13 posted on 07/13/2018 9:59:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: G Larry

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.


14 posted on 07/13/2018 10:00:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: Grampa Dave
This is a great summary: (and I am a Conservative Cathoic)

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

15 posted on 07/13/2018 10:20:33 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Wow, very scary and this adds more elite players of the Deep State. Thanks!

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-vatican-bank-chief


16 posted on 07/13/2018 10:36:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: nobamanomore

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!


17 posted on 07/13/2018 12:43:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Eddie01

Startling numbers


18 posted on 07/13/2018 12:48:15 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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