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Hospital staff on one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside where patients are taken to recover from the virus in October 2020
UNIONS, medics and opposition leaders are demanding urgent new NHS investment today as reports estimate that waiting lists could hit 14 million next year.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has predicted that the number of people waiting for treatment in England could hit the colossal milestone next autumn, warning that those joining waiting lists could even outstrip patients being treated.
And the British Heart Foundation charity (BHF) estimates today that the queue for specialist heart surgery will be 15,385 by February, approaching twice the number who were waiting before the Covid-19 crisis.
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’
