{"id":46085,"date":"2024-10-10T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/time-to-fix-nhs-as-long-waits-continue-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T10:40:00","slug":"time-to-fix-nhs-as-long-waits-continue-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=46085","title":{"rendered":"Time to fix NHS as long waits continue, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of August, the waiting list for hospital treatment stood at 7.64 million \u2013 down from the peak of 7.77 million, last year, but higher than earlier in the summer and spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Frank Smith, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said there had been too little progress on tackling long waits, with a target to eliminate those of over 65 weeks, by September, looking \u201cvery hard to achieve\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIf the new government wants to show it is serious about meeting its pledge to cut waiting times, it must provide capital funding for NHS buildings and IT [information technology] in the autumn Budget, later this month,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With reports of broken lifts and flooded corridors in hospitals leading to cancelled operations, and surgeons telling us access to operating theatres remains an issue, cutting waits will remain an uphill battle without this investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Siva Anandaciva, of the King\u2019s Fund health think tank, agreed the Budget would be a crucial moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj6e0ww29z8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of August, the waiting list for hospital treatment stood at 7.64 million \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1048,1400,1783,3081,364,13,3269],"class_list":["post-46085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-continue","tag-experts","tag-fix","tag-long","tag-nhs","tag-time","tag-waits"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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