GE2024 - longer NHS waits [April 2024]

There are two causes for the increased waiting times ---
a) politically, it would appear that the tory party are wanting to privatise health care, perhaps into the american profit-driven model.
b) fallout from the covid-19 pandemic in two ways - i) original postponements of non-essential surgery and (ii) serious illnesses precipitated by covid infections or delays caused by the pandemic
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