The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the general health of the British public and the NHS will be long-lasting. NHS waiting lists currently stand at a record 6.61m – services are under significant pressure and demand continues to grow.
General practice carried out almost 370m consultations last year, with each GP looking after 10% more patients on average in 2022 than in 2015. Almost 11m 999 calls were answered in the last 12 months, while all-age referrals to NHS secondary mental health services increased 15% between 2020/21 and 2021/22. More than 360,000 children and young people are waiting to be seen by a consultant, the highest on record since 1948.
There have been more 12-hour trolley waits for patients in urgent and emergency care in 2022 so far than in all of 2021 and 2020 combined. Recent polling found that over half (55%) of the British public felt the cost-of-living crisis was having a negative impact on their health.
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