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How NHS waiting lists are driving patients to cash in pensions or sell their homes to pay for operations they desperately need

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Seven million and growing — that’s the number of people now on waiting lists for NHS treatment ranging from cancer checks to replacing arthritic hips and heart surgery.

These delays can mean living with pain or debilitating symptoms that make everyday life difficult. A six-month wait for an operation can also result in a 50 per cent greater chance of a worse outcome, according to projections reported in the journal Pain Reports in 2022.

Little wonder that more and more

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Feet from the flames: Terrifying moment worker trapped at the top of 16-storey burning tower desperately begs to be saved – as humble crane driver who winched him to safety says ‘it’s not been your average day at work’

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This is the terrifying moment a builder came close to being engulfed in flames, before a modest crane driver saved him from the roof of a burning £750million Reading development today.

The man, who has not been named, was close to dying before Glen Edwards managed to carry out a Hollywood-style rescue and move a cage through smoke and flame to save his unnamed colleague. 

Before Mr Edwards, 65, had an opportunity to showcase his operator skills, footage shows the

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