The number of people waiting to start treatment on the NHS in England have risen to a record 6.6 million
New NHS data has shown a declining satisfaction with family doctors with more than a quarter of patients having not made an appointment because they found it too difficult, up from 11% in 2021.
Some 55% of patients who needed an appointment said they had avoided making one in the last 12 months, up from 42% in 2021. "GPs are working harder than ever before, yet these findings show a dramatic fall in patients' experience of getting an appointment. "There has been a failure of successive governments to adequately plan and invest in the future NHS workforce, a failure that has left GPs and patients to pick up the pieces."
An average of 22,918 hospital staff in England were absent each day in the week to July 6, either because they were sick with Covid-19 or were self-isolating.The figure is below the level reached at the peak of the first Omicron wave in early January, when absences due to coronavirus averaged nearly 54,000.
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