More than eight million people will be stuck on NHS surgery waiting lists by autumn because of treatment delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak, experts say. Last August there were a record 4.41million patients in England on waiting lists for routine operations, a rise of 250,000 from the same month a year earlier. It makes it 'very likely we will have doubled the waiting list to over eight million by the late autumn', with one in eight people waiting for treatment. Chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think-tank, Nigel Edwards, said more than 8million people will be stuck on NHS waiting lists by autumn. Only 916,581 emergency department visits were recorded in the month that Britain's coronavirus crisis peaked - the first time on record the number has dipped below one million.

Source: Daily Mail May 14, 2020 17:32 UTC