“Pretty Dire Situation” NHS Staff Voices Chair Alia Butt On Waiting Lists
Chair of NHS Staff Voices Alia Butt joins Mike Graham on Talk to discuss the increasing waits for treatment within the NHS
The UK is falling behind other high-income countries due to long waits for hospital care, a new report suggests. The Health Foundation said that the UK is among the “poorest performing countries” when it comes to hospital-based care.
A decade ago, the UK was one of the best nations for people seeing hospital specialists in less than four weeks.
But it “slipped from being one of the better-performing nations in 2013 to one of the worst in 2023”, according to new analysis by the think tank.
The Commonwealth Fund’s International Health Policy Survey, which has been running for nearly two decades, saw adults from 10 high income countries, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and the UK, asked about their experiences using a range of services including hospital care, GP support and dentistry.
The 2023 survey saw 21,000 people were asked their opinions including 3,361 adults in the UK.
Analysis of the data by the Health Foundation found that the UK has some of the longest reported waiting times to see a specialist and, alongside Canada, has the largest proportion of people waiting one year or more for an appointment.
The latest official figures show the waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has risen for the third month in a row.
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