Patient care and wellbeing are being put at risk by the ever-growing NHS waiting list in Wales, it is claimed.
Latest monthly data from the Welsh Government shows that more people than ever before are awaiting some form of non-urgent treatment on the health service.
In December 2021 there were 683,331 people on the waiting list – a rise from the 682,279 recorded in November and way up on the 456,809 seen just before the pandemic hit in March 2020. The growth has slowed, up 0.2% in the last month, but it is still rising.
