In England, 7.1 million people were left waiting for nonemergency medical treatment. Eight charts show how the U.K.’s government-run National Health Service struggled to care for a nation.
A decade of tight budgets, a Covid backlog and a shortage of hospital beds and staff have strained care at the U.K.'s government-run National Health Service.The wait times start as soon as someone calls 999, the equivalent of 911. Patients in England wait far longer than the NHS targets, from getting a call answered to the handover from ambulance to hospital staff.
For anyone arriving at a hospital for emergency services, the time from when patients are formally admitted until they get a bed has grown.A record 7.1 million people in England were waiting for nonemergency treatments as of November.The average cost of care for patients is rising across services, too.
The stress of the pandemic has exacerbated staffing shortfalls at the NHS—more so for nurses than medical staff such as doctors and dentists in England. Adding to the squeeze: The U.K. has lost thousands of hospital beds over the past decade in a drive for efficiency. It now has far fewer beds per capita than some other countries.
Sources: National Health Service ; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ; Office for National Statistics
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