Routine hospital services ‘under threat’ over strain new waiting list figures putting on system

Health Minister Simon Harris was warned of the dire situation after it emerged that a historic 686,999 patients were forced to wait for vital care at the end of last month — up 150,000 in just a year and 9,500 since June alone.
New figures revealed by the independent National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) show that at the end of July a massive one in every seven people in the country were on some form of waiting list.