🔴 NHS waiting list in England rises to 6.73 million with record number of year-long delays ➡️ The Royal College of Surgeons called on the Government to make funding promised for surgical hubs available immediately in response to the latest figures
establish surgical hubs in areas that are struggling to recoverFiona Myint, vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said: “While the huge efforts of surgical teams have dramatically brought down the very long waits for surgery that we saw in the wake of the pandemic,“The government needs to fix the roof now, as the winter will only be worse. That means funding surgical hubs in areas that are struggling to bring down long waits for operations, and careful workforce planning.
The average response time in July for ambulances in England dealing with the most urgent incidents, defined as calls from people with life-threatening illnesses or injuries, was nine minutes and 35 seconds, NHS England figures show. This is up from nine minutes and six seconds in June, and is the joint longest average response time for this category of incidents since current records began in 2017. The target standard response time for urgent incidents is seven minutes.
A record 29,317 people had to wait more than 12 hours in A&E departments in England in July from a decision to admit to actually being admitted, NHS England said. The figure is up 33% from 22,034 the previous month and is the highest for any calendar month in records going back to August 2010. Richard Murray, chief executive of The King’s Fund, said: “Despite record high temperatures outside, today’s NHS figures are more like those of a health service stuck in the depths of a particularly dire winter. In July this year, nearly 30,000 emergency patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital, a huge increase from the pre-pandemic level of just 450 in July 2019.
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