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People waiting more than a year for hospital treatment at highest level since 2008
SKY News UK ^ | December 10, 2020

Posted on 12/10/2020 2:39:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The number of people waiting more than a year to start hospital treatment in England in October was higher than any month since 2008, figures show.

There were 162,888 patients still yet to start treatment in October 2020, the highest number since 2008.

A year earlier, the number having to wait more than 52 weeks to start treatment stood at just 1,321.

The latest figures from NHS England also show A&E admissions down 31% on the previous year.

A total of 1.5 million people went to A&E in November this year - down from 2.1 million in November 2019.

NHS England said this is likely to be a consequence of the coronavirus outbreak, as people are still staying away from hospital because of the virus.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europe; health; medicine; nhs; socialism; socializedmedicine

1 posted on 12/10/2020 2:39:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Meanwhile...

NHS staff no longer top priority for Covid vaccine despite fear of third wave

NHS po'ed because geezers will get them first. Nice people.

2 posted on 12/10/2020 2:54:34 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Blame that on the wonders of Socialized Medicine.


3 posted on 12/10/2020 3:05:49 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Boris and the so called Conservatives are going to get crushed in the next election.

Boris has completely botched COVID-19, the economy, and Brexit.

And, it all happened just 18 months after the Labour Party committed political suicide by running Jeremy Corbyn, a pro-terrorist anti-Semite, as their leader.

4 posted on 12/10/2020 3:09:13 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I won't post the link because it's behind a paywall, but here's a headline from yesterday's Telegraph:

Exclusive: More than 10,000 patients caught Covid-19 while being treated in hospital

The NHS is a superspreader!

5 posted on 12/10/2020 3:10:29 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: zeestephen

The UK has a Deep State, too.


6 posted on 12/10/2020 3:10:56 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's a Paradise! Everyone in Britain is entitled to mediocre care delivered a year after care became necessary.
7 posted on 12/10/2020 3:41:53 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: mewzilla

Of course they do. The Deep State is worldwide. All linked together.


8 posted on 12/10/2020 3:44:34 AM PST by GMThrust
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There motto: “if we wait long enough they’ll be dead”


9 posted on 12/10/2020 3:45:13 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: ronnie raygun

IIRC, the NHS is the UK’s largest employer, with over a million employees.

Patients aren’t customers.

They’re the grist for the mill.


10 posted on 12/10/2020 3:49:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla

With socialized medicine, older and/or sick people are a burden that is unsustainable; they need funding contributors who consume little to no services, not retired drains on the system. These systems simply don’t work; the 1%ers all have their procedures done here.


11 posted on 12/10/2020 4:29:57 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The ‘National Health’ is a travesty
12 posted on 12/10/2020 5:02:21 AM PST by SMARTY ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Twain)
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To: Texas Fossil

Hospitals were bribed with higher payments for chinese virus patients or a positive test for chinese virus so everyone had the virus.

They will kill you when bribed by the democrats and by who you voted for. In england they kill 125,000 a year by denying medical care. You do not know you are on a death list.

Hospitals bribed to put patients on pathway to death: Cash incentive for NHS trusts that meet targets on Liverpool Care Pathway
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223286/Hospitals-bribed-patients-pathway-death-Cash-incentive-NHS-trusts-meet-targets-Liverpool-Care-Pathway.html


13 posted on 12/10/2020 3:15:08 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: zeestephen

#4 Plus Boris does not know how to comb his hair.


14 posted on 12/10/2020 3:16:49 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: minnesota_bound

His male-wrecker girl friend likes it that way.


15 posted on 12/10/2020 3:19:54 PM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: minnesota_bound

I’m sure it is true.

It is sick crap.


16 posted on 12/10/2020 4:25:46 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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