The most rapid progress has been in waiting times for planned surgery and procedures. <\/p>\n
The pandemic caused huge problems here because so much non-urgent surgery and treatment was cancelled. <\/p>\n
The most recent figures are from November and at that point 24 people had been waiting more than a year and a half. <\/p>\n
But in the same month in 2023 that figure was 1,403.<\/p>\n
There are still huge numbers of people waiting a year or more \u2013 28,671 \u2013 but that’s still far better than November 2023 when it was 68,233. <\/p>\n
All governments since 2022 have put a big emphasis on getting waiting lists down and it shows. <\/p>\n
The percentage of people being seen within the national target of 18 weeks is also slowly but steadily going up (currently 57%).<\/p>\n
No one thinks that the NHS is where it should be. <\/p>\n
There are also huge financial pressures in this part of the world now because the NHS in this region is facing significant budget cuts, and that’s playing out in cuts to many services. <\/p>\n
But at the same time the past few years have seen some steady improvements which hopefully will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most rapid progress has been in waiting times for planned surgery and procedures. The pandemic caused huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}