The number of patients waiting a year for NHS treatment has risen by 15% in the past year.
Sunderland in the North East had the fewest waits out of the ICBs in England, with fewer than 1% of patients enduring a year-long delay.
‘These figures reveal a stark postcode lottery, with some areas seeing more than one in eight patients who have been stuck on an NHS waiting list for a year or more. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: ‘This Government is working to cut waiting times and the NHS is treating record numbers of patients each day.
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