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NHS waiting lists rise again: Private health industry ‘rubbing its hands’ at rising profits, campaigners warn
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, as they take to picket lines for six days during their continuing dispute over pay, January 3, 2024

DOCTORS’ union the BMA slammed the Prime Minister today for blaming ballooning NHS waiting lists on industrial action.  

Rishi Sunak made reducing NHS waiting lists a key Tory pledge in January 2023.

But new figures show numbers have since soared by 350,000, with 7.57 million treatments still waiting to be carried out at the end of April.

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