Some of these patients are waiting for multiple treatments, which means that the overall waiting list is larger.
In an interview with Sky News, Mr Streeting said: “The fate of millions of people are at stake at this General Election, not least the 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists.”: “What I’m here to talk about and what I can affect change on is the 7.5 million people on an NHS waiting list.”
Later in the interview, with Sky News he repeated the claim: “The fate of millions of people are at stake at this General Election, not least the 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists.”An estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of March, according to the NHS England figures, but this is not the same as having 7.5 million people on the waiting list, as quoted by Mr Streeting.
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