Hospitals approach “critical point” as millions wait for routine treatment – BBC News

Hospitals approach “critical point” as millions wait for routine treatment – BBC News

The damage being done to many hospital services in England by the coronavirus pandemic is revealed in new NHS figures.

More than 4 million patients are now waiting for routine surgery and treatments, nearly half of whom have been waiting for longer than 18 weeks, the official maximum target.

Meanwhile more than 110,000 people in England have been waiting for treatment for more than a year.

Doctors and patients’ groups are warning that a second wave of the pandemic, especially during the winter months, could make things even worse. Hospital admission for Covid have doubled in the past two weeks.

The health minister Nadine Dorries has warned that within 10 days hospitals in England could be at a “critical” point.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by health editor Hugh Pym and health correspondent Lauren Moss.

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46 Comments

  1. Robin Andrews on October 25, 2023 at 3:43 pm

    New cases without reference to number of tests is a meaningless figure. As is deaths within 28 days of testing positive, almost. She briefly mentions that there are 3,000 patients in total in hospital with Covid whereas there were 3,000 new patients a day during the peak. Am I misting something or is the Covid situation just not significant enough to be newsworthy at this time, or worthy of disruptive legislation for that matter?



  2. Oye Oye on October 25, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    Hey, maybe stop fear mongering about Covid, and give people who are actually sick the REAL treatment they need. How’s the ridiculous Covid fear mongering working for ya?



  3. Paul Squires on October 25, 2023 at 3:45 pm

    Typical BBC rubbish! It won’t be too long now before Channel 5 beats your viewer numbers!



  4. Daniel fisher on October 25, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    Anyone remember when labour knocked loads off the waiting lists ??

    They stopped treating long term treatments like cancer patients and started treatment minor problems like ingrowning toenails.

    And free up loads of hospital bed. People that were waiting on trolleys for a hospital bed… they simply took the wheels off the hospital trolleys and could it a hospital bed.

    Governments are good for nothing



  5. Andrea Jarvis on October 25, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    Put Covid ppl in the nightingale hospitals so main hospitals can do the treatments they need to.



  6. Thundewr Fox on October 25, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    Corona virus live update https://youtu.be/CEna8kXYAwA



  7. Don Muti on October 25, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    Cocacoca



  8. Ty Buchanan on October 25, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    Science and technology have pushed demand for high-end treatment. Hospitals are tied up with meeting this demand. Consequently, people suffer and die with "ordinary" illnesses because hospitals are not bothering to treat them. Taxes are being used for people who should be paying for private treatment. Only standard illnesses should be treated in public hospitals. If I get cancer I do not expect the taxpayer to subsidize drugs costing thousands of dollars a week.

    Another video showed a man 98 years old having surgery on his heart. He is taking a bed that a younger person should be in. I am 76 years old. If I get sick I should not go to the front of the queue. If I die waiting, so be it.



  9. Greig Murray on October 25, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    Maybe if you and the rest of the state media stopped peddling the governments agenda!



  10. Carol Marr on October 25, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    Obviously the covid crisis and the focus on this has led inevitably to delays in treatment for non covid patients. There will be some people who will not be diagnosed as they may not come forward for consultation due to the lack of face to face meetings with gp’s. There is great difficulty for doctors trying to diagnose over the phone.



  11. Jonathan Hadley on October 25, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    The damage to the NHS has been going on for years, butt the BBC wont tell you as to why! Now we’ve got this "strange virus!" doing the rounds & despite Nighting gale hospitals being built havent really been used! So people will only be going to the hospitals in an emergency!



  12. Ryan H on October 25, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    My sister is a full time nurse in Treliske Hospital,Cornwalls only major hospital and she says that corona virus is barely even an issue and what we are seeing on the tv is completely ridiculous,exaggerated and over the top.she also said she doesnt understand why they are projecting fear into the public or the agenda behind why they are doing it.People are suffering more from metal issues like serious anxiety etc more than they are this virus.The news,media and the government are the ones doing the damage to the public with these ridiculous rules they are setting.And thats from the horses mouth,someone that works hard within the nhs.



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  15. Scottie Don’t! on October 25, 2023 at 3:55 pm

    CDC COVID-19 Survival Rates

    Age 0-19 — 99.997%
    Age 20-49 — 99.98%
    Age 50-69 — 99.5%
    Age 70+ — 94.6%



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  20. Terry Moore on October 25, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    A national disgrace! Now with a few presenting for treatment, how many of the ‘Covid’ declared admissions are actually nothing to do with Covid!



  21. Paul on October 25, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    With only 500 COVID-19 cases on ventilators in hospitals it is time to use the NHS Nightingale Hospitals is located in England, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Harrogate, Washington & Exeter
    The NHS Nightingale Hospital London opened first on 3 April 2020. As of 5 May 2020, six of the seven planned hospitals had opened, and by the following month all had been placed on standby. The Harrogate and Exeter hospitals were repurposed as diagnostic clinics in June and July respectively. And free up hospitals for the people left to die at home of all the old illness the NHS are not treating any more ?



  22. Grip 47 on October 25, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    Defund the BBC and cancel your subscription of the BBC!!



  23. Vexing on October 25, 2023 at 4:03 pm

    all media have to make news, they would be out of a job if their wasn’t any…..and what better way to get views but to cause panic. it’s a fucked up cycle.



  24. Richard Boddington on October 25, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    So long as people don’t die from COVID the government can claim victory. If you die because the government delayed your heart surgery, well, that’s fine.



  25. Tracer on October 25, 2023 at 4:15 pm

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  27. julie julie on October 25, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    BBC full of Crap. How come people are getting positive results back when they havent even took the test???? Bull shit Bue bye BBC



  28. Richard Boddington on October 25, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    At the peak 20 patients in ICU, half with COVID. Oh give us a break, that’s it?



  29. Eliš D on October 25, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    Wow people are still believing this corparation…….
    Hanging on their every word……
    I don’t have an opinion or think for myself…..wait until I’ve watched the BBC news…..
    Then I will………ffs



  30. Tsogtsaikhan Jambal on October 25, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    You are so big news company, why you not writing /putting down there full stop, comma etc, in the sentences / scrips?



  31. Chris Brown on October 25, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    Not many people believe all of this anymore . The truth is coming out .



  32. LogicM deWet on October 25, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    Hahaha…hahaha.. The BBC news.. C’mon..



  33. Gareth Pattinson on October 25, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    Use the nightingale hospitals not a single bed in them is occupied deep clean nhs hospitals for thr rest of the country that need treatment



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  38. Public Public on October 25, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    This is why those that break the mild social distancing regulations should taste what the real meaning of the word lockdown actually means.



  39. Thensia on October 25, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    People need to stop being selfish. Wear the effing face mask so others can get their treatments.



  40. Online Medicine с д-р Цанко Стефанов on October 25, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    Royal Bolton is a really good hospital.



  41. hellohellohello on October 25, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!



  42. John Faulkner on October 25, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    The NHS is a broken model but no one has the guts to say so.
    Envy of the ( third?) World maybe.
    Time to see why other countries have so much better outcomes?



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  44. Tracer on October 25, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    HOW ABOUT USING YOUR NIGHTINGALE
    HOSPITALS WHICH ARE STANDING
    UNUSED FOR MONTHS!!!!!



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