The number of people in the queue for routine NHS treatment in England has soared to another high and record numbers are facing ‘frightening waits’ in A&E.
As the crisis in the health service deepens, official statistics show one in nine people (6.4million) were waiting for elective operations such as hip and knee replacements and cataracts surgery by March — up from the 6.18m stuck in February.
There are now 306,000 who have been waiting for more than a year