Health Secretary Therese Coffey outlines measures to help ease NHS waiting times and delays.
Patient John Wooley said: "Waiting two weeks is ridiculous. People have got to be seen a lot quicker than that."
It has been argued that for the NHS to be successful in tackling backlogs and reducing ambulance delays, much more needs to be done to strengthen the care sector now - not just in the future.It is understood that Ms Coffey would like people to use more private providers to help ease the operations backlog in the NHS.
"It's important to us that we can support the NHS as we can our private patients," said Louise Sokalsky, director of its clinical services."We are absolutely full at the moment because of increased demand. We are at capacity most of the time," she said. "I was in an incredible lot of pain, having to take pain killers at the end of the day just to calm my leg down," he said.He said he was disappointed with Ms Coffey's plan, and said he had expected the health secretary to announce "more resources and more staff to bring the backlog down, because that's only what's going to do it."
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