4.7 million waiting for operations in England
The February figures show the numbers waiting over a year for surgery continued to rise sharply. …
Tim Mitchell, vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said: “Although the most urgent operations, for cancer and life-threatening conditions went ahead, hundreds of thousands of patients waiting for routine surgery such as hip and knee operations, cochlear implants and vascular operations had their treatment cancelled or postponed.
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