The number of cases waiting longer than the target time for elective care in England, Scotland and Wales has rocketed in the last decade, FactCheck analysis reveals.
Each nation of Great Britain is in charge of its own health service and sets its own target for when elective patients should begin treatment.
• Under the Conservatives in England, the NHS has a different target: to treat people within 18 weeks of a GP referral. But FactCheck analysis finds that this part of the waiting list is now 19 times bigger than it was in 2013. We reached our figures by taking monthly data from each nation’s health service and averaging it by calendar year.
Now, these planned care waiting lists are only one aspect of NHS performance and are not directly comparable between nations because they’re each working to their own different targets.
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