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What is the NHS backlog - why can't I get an appointment and what has caused it?

People up and down the country are still waiting for appointments and to be treated as the NHS experiences a huge backlog. The Health Secretary Sajid Javid has now announced plans to try and sort out the problem

Daily Mirror

Evening Standard Comment: NHS patients are waiting for care — many will be disappointed

NHS waiting lists are going to get longer before they get shorter. That’s the considered view of Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has warned that the backlog will not be cleared for two years.

Evening Standard

NHS waiting-list backlog will take YEARS to clear as six million face treatment delays, warns Sajid Javid

Health Secretary Sajid Javid warned the waiting list is likely to increase

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Health Minister Gillian Keegan 'sorry' for continuing meeting after testing positive for Covid-19

MP Gillian Keegan's apology accepted by Health Secretary Sajid Javid

Wales Online

Covid news: Sweden scraps almost all restrictions and testing despite pleas from scientists; Spain’s King Felipe tests positive – as it happened

Sweden scraps almost all of its few restrictions and stops most testing; Spain’s King Felipe tests positive after displaying mild symptoms

The Guardian - AU

Sajid Javid 'not ambitious enough' with plans to reduce growing NHS waiting list

Health Secretary Sajid Javid set out how he will tackle the NHS waiting list which has grown to record levels during the Covid pandemic - but it's not "ambitious enough", Conservative former chief whip Mark Harper said

Daily Mirror

Sajid Javid pledges 15,000 new health workers by the end of March

Mr Javid earlier set out in the Commons how the NHS would tackle the backlog built up during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Plan to further integrate NHS and social care announced ‘to stop people falling into gaps’

Further integration will allow services to be tailored to local community, says government

The Independent UK

NHS waiting list could soar to 14m - stark warning despite government covid recovery plan

Government ministers issued the stark warning as details were laid out of how the massive backlog would be tackled

Wales Online

NHS waiting list in England will not fall for at least another two years

Sajid Javid said the NHS expect waiting lists to be reducing by March 2024.

The Independent UK

England’s hospital waiting list will keep growing, says Sajid Javid

Health secretary launches elective recovery plan but says 10m people could seek care before the backlog eases

The Guardian - UK

NHS year-long waits to last until 2025 as 10 million patients stayed away due to Covid

Labour's Wes Streeting said the delayed plan 'falls seriously short of the scale of the challenge facing the NHS and the misery that is affecting millions of people'

Daily Mirror

NHS waiting lists to rise until 2024, says Sajid Javid

The health secretary told the Commons that the number of patients waiting for elective surgery could rise to 14 million

The Independent UK

Chris Whitty tells NHS staff it is their professional responsibility to get jabs

Health Secretary Sajid Javid told the Commons last month that ministers plan to scrap a legal requirement for NHS staff to be vaccinated.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Chris Heaton-Harris is new chief whip and Jacob Rees-Mogg minister for Brexit opportunities – reshuffle as it happened

Limited government reshuffle sees big changes in whips’ office as former chief whip Mark Spencer moves to leader of Commons

The Guardian - AU

Covid live: Italy and Spain to ease mask mandate; UK records 66,183 new cases – as it happened

Italy and Spain relax rules on wearing masks in outdoor spaces; UK records 314 Covid-related deaths

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Sajid Javid says people should boycott Jimmy Carr over 'horrid' Holocaust joke

The Health Secretary suggest people should not watch or listen to the comedian to 'send him a very strong message'

Daily Mirror

Plan to clear NHS backlog delayed - but Sajid Javid denies Treasury blocked move

Some 6 million people are waiting for non-urgent care following the pandemic but publication of a blueprint to stamp out waits has been pushed back

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Daily Mirror

Sajid Javid slams Jimmy Carr's 'horrid' Netflix show and urges viewers to switch off

The Health Secretary is not impressed by Jimmy's stand up routine which included comments about the Holocaust and the traveller community that have been widely slammed

Daily Record

Attacks on Carrie Johnson are 'sexist and misogyny', insists Sajid Javid

The UK Health Secretary insisted the Prime Minister's family should be off-limits as he slammed a warts-and-all biography of Carrie Johnson.

The Independent UK

Jimmy Carr: Sajid Javid calls for boycott against comedian after ‘horrid’ Holocaust joke

Carr has been heavily criticised for remarks about traveller community

The Independent UK

Sajid Javid brands criticism of Carrie Johnson ‘misogynist’ amid claims she has ‘too much influence’

Ministers have been defending the prime minister’s wife after recent criticism

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Starmer rescued from angry demonstrators by police – as it happened

Labour leader put into police car after being surrounded by protesters near the Houses of Parliament

Evening Standard

Sajid Javid warns NHS Covid backlog ‘will continue to rise’

Plans to tackle the NHS backlog had been due to be published in December but had been put on hold due to Omicron

The Guardian - UK

Sajid Javid denies row with Treasury behind NHS backlog plan delay

Health secretary blames impact of Omicron for delay, which health leaders say could exacerbate England’s waiting list crisis

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