{"id":1996815,"date":"2023-08-10T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-7-6-million-waiting-for-treatment-in-uks-nhs\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:26:54","slug":"nearly-7-6-million-waiting-for-treatment-in-uks-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-7-6-million-waiting-for-treatment-in-uks-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 7.6 million people await treatment in the UK&#8217;s NHS."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnearly-7-6-million-waiting-for-treatment-in-uks-nhs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Approximately 7.57 million Britons Waiting \u200dfor Routine Healthcare Treatment in the UK&#8217;s National Health Service<\/h2>\n<p>According to new\u200d numbers released on Thursday, \u200capproximately 7.57\u200c million Britons \u200care currently\u2063 waiting for routine healthcare treatment in the United Kingdom&#8217;s National\u2064 Health Service (NHS). This comes just\u2063 over \u200ca \u2063month after the\u2063 NHS celebrated its 75th\u200d anniversary. The latest data reveals that wait times for the nationalized\u200c healthcare system have tripled from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-dakota-lowers-unemployment-to-pre-pandemic-levels-after-state-rejected-lockdowns\/\" title=\"South Dakota Lowers Unemployment to Pre-Pandemic Levels After State Rejected Lockdowns\">pre-pandemic levels<\/a>, with an \u200bincrease of 100,000 patients between May \u200band June of this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Long Wait Times\u2063 and Backlogs<\/h3>\n<p>As of \u200cthe end of June, a staggering \u2064314 UK citizens had been waiting for more than\u200d two years to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-7-6-million-waiting-for-treatment-in-uks-nhs\/\" title=\"Over 7.6 million people await treatment in the UK's NHS.\">receive routine healthcare treatments<\/a>, such as hip replacements. Additionally, over 7,000 patients had been waiting for over\u2062 18 months, and more than 380,000\u2062 had been waiting for more than a year.\u2063 The \u200cmajority of patients, over 4 million, had been waiting for \u2062up to 18\u2064 weeks, according to the NHS report.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact\u200b of Junior Doctor Strikes<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2063recent spike \u200bin wait times can be attributed, in \u200bpart, to a\u200c series of strikes by junior NHS \u200cdoctors in recent months. \u200dThese strikes have caused periodic\u2062 breaks in healthcare\u200d provision across the UK. The \u200dupcoming strike \u2063from August 11 to August \u206415 will \u2064be the fifth junior doctor strike, resulting\u200b in \u2063a total of 450 service hours or 19 full days\u200c with the NHS functioning on only two-thirds of its medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This latest round of junior doctors strikes will again significantly disrupt services\u200c for patients, \u200band\u2062 the additional\u2062 challenge this time is that \u200corganizations are \u200bunable to use agency workers to cover staff out on strike,&#8221; said NHS National Medical Director Stephen Powis in a press statement about\u2063 the most recent strike. &#8220;It is also a period of time where NHS staff often take annual leave, so there are already gaps \u2063in the workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A press statement from \u2064the NHS indicated\u200b that nearly 780,000 hospital appointments had been postponed due\u200b to the physician strikes.<\/p>\n<h3>Pressure on British Prime Minister\u2063 Rishi Sunak<\/h3>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s report\u200b puts significant strain on British Prime Minister Rishi \u200cSunak, who has made promises to reduce waiting list \u2063times. &#8220;Today&#8217;s data is a reminder of the significant pressure on staff, with this summer currently\u2063 on trajectory to \u200bbe the \u2063busiest in NHS history, all while industrial action continues to disrupt services,&#8221; said\u2064 Julian Redhead of NHS England in response to the report.<\/p>\n<h3>NHS as a Universal Healthcare System<\/h3>\n<p>The NHS has often\u200d been cited by \u200ccritics of the U.S. healthcare system \u200bas an example of a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-border-crisis-is-killing-americans-data-shows\/\" title=\"The Border Crisis Is Killing Americans, Data Shows\">universal healthcare system<\/a>. This summer, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), along with Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) \u2062and Debbie\u2063 Dingell\u2062 (D-MI),\u200d reintroduced the Medicare for All Act to restructure the U.S.\u200c healthcare system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 7.57 million Britons await routine healthcare treatment in the UK&#8217;s National Health Service. New data, released after the NHS&#8217;s 75th anniversary, show that wait times have tripled from pre-pandemic levels. 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