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Waiting game: a record 6.1 million NHS patients are currently waiting for non-urgent treatment

UK MPs have ruled that the government has overseen ‘years of decline’ in achieving waiting time targets for elective NHS care and cancer treatment. Consequently, staff are facing a backlog in the wake of the pandemic.