Shop around on NHS app to shorten wait for treatment
IT upgrade will allow patients to exercise their right to choose where they are treated, ministers say. …
While progress has been made on the very longest waits, the number of operations being done is still below pre-pandemic levels. This is because hospitals have struggled to get back to full capacity, mainly because of staffing shortages, more emergency patients and problems discharging patients because of the lack of care in the community.