Backlog in NHS and courts will take 10 years to clear, says thinktank

The IPPR says it will take nearly a decade to get NHS waiting lists down to 2010 levels. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Public services will not recover until the 2030s even under a Labour government, and it will take a decade to clear the backlog in the NHS and the courts, a report says.

The study from the Institute for Public Policy Research, a progressive thinktank, outlines the challenges an incoming Labour government would face, with voters impatient for change within a first term.