From the Guardian:

One in eight NHS hospital patients still has to wait more than a year for treatment, the government acknowledged yesterday in its first attempt to tell the full truth about health service queues in England.

A Department of Health analysis of 208,000 people admitted to hospital in March showed 48% were wheeled into the operating theatre within 18 weeks of a GP sending them for hospital diagnosis. But 30% waited more than 30 weeks and 12.4% more than a year.

In a key manifesto pledge at the 2005 general election, the government promised that by December next year all patients would be treated within 18 weeks.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in NHS

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