One patient, whose details have been kept anonymous, has waited for almost six years to receive hospital care. At the moment, there are more than six million people on the waiting list for NHS hospital care.
A woman left waiting nearly four years to have various NHS surgeries, says the impact of the delays has been"soul destroying".
Across England, some 6.1 million people are waiting for hospital care, including more than 23,000 who have been waiting for more than two years. For Jo Goulding, who has lived with rheumatoid arthritis since she was seven, the wait for surgery has left her in"agonising" chronic pain and"relying on painkillers" to simply get by.
The 49-year-old has been on the list for two elbow replacements since 2018, a shoulder replacement since 2019 and only had a hip replacement, which she was waiting for since 2020, in March.Due to the length of the wait, when she was finally seen she needed more extensive surgery because the artificial hip had caused problems with her pelvis.
"I don't know how I managed over the last two years. The most upsetting thing is that it's not just my life, but my family's lives too, which have been affected."
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