Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set out a ‘purposefully ambitious’ target for the NHS to carry out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks by March 2029.
NHS A&Es have had their busiest summer ever in England with staff managing 6.8m attendances in three months, up almost by almost a quarter of a million on last year.
NHS England statistics have revealed the waiting list in May for procedures and appointments rose by 31,249 to 7.6m.
Hospital waiting lists rose to 757m in May from 7.54m in April amidst record demand.
Labour has pledged to hit the NHS 18-week treatment target within five years if elected on 4 July.
Record waiting lists have driven a 30% rise in the use of private healthcare in the UK since the pandemic, a new report has revealed.
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