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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Dave Clark

Almost half of NHS England waiting list patients yet to have initial appointment

Around three million people in England have had no further health care since being referred to a hospital waiting list, new data suggests.

NHS England figures last month estimated 7.36 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of May, relating to just under 6.23 million patients – with the analysis from MBI Health suggesting almost half of those have been left in limbo.

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