CAMPAIGNERS urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today to let go of his “obsession with NHS privatisation and underfunding” as the latest figures show that the number of patients on waiting lists remains sky high. 

The government has set an ambition of eliminating all waits of more than a year by March next year.

But new NHS England figures show that, at the end of March, 309,300 people in England had been waiting more than 52 weeks to start routine hospital treatment, up from 305,050 at the end of February.