Sanitation Committee Sajid Javid Already warned National Health Service Due to growing concerns about the backlog of health services, the waiting list may soar to 13 million in the coming months.
In his first interview with the Sunday Telegraph after accepting the job two weeks ago, Mr. Javid said that more and more people are waiting for non-Covid treatment in the NHS, which shocked him the most since he returned to the hospital. Things. cabinet After Matt Hancock resigned.
He told the newspaper: “The thing that shocked me the most was that it would get better before I was told that the waiting list would get worse.
“As of today, it has increased from 3.5 million to 5.3 million. I told officials, what do you mean by’worse’, I think it might increase from 5.3 million to 6 million, 7 million. They say no, it will increase Millions…it could be as high as 13 million.
“Hearing the number 13 million, it definitely makes me focus. This will be one of the first tasks I have to deal with because we can’t have it.”
At the same time, the NHS Trust is facing the combined effects of another increase in Covid cases, a backlog of other treatments such as cancer screening and heart disease, and a shortage of personnel due to workers having to self-isolate when they are “pinged” by the Covid app.
NHS Providers, NHS member organization trust United Kingdom The warning states that in just three weeks from now, as many as one-fifth of the employees of an NHS trust may be absent, which may result in the cancellation of up to 900 operations.
Mr. Javid confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph that after the 10th suggestion that they can be exempted from staying at home, “there is every reason to think that we can adopt a more proportionate and balanced isolation policy for NHS staff”. Two jabs.
He also discussed the NHS salary issue and thought that raising taxes to fund social care might be a “practical and obvious” solution.
Earlier, Professor Helen Stokes- Lampard, Dean of the Royal College of Medicine, said that the death toll has also begun to rise again.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today program: “We just heard in this announcement that the number of cases is increasing, and the number of people requiring hospitalization and intensive care is increasing. Sadly, the death toll has also begun to rise again.
“There seems to be a misunderstanding that from then on (July 19) life will return to normal and we can give up all preventive measures. Frankly speaking, that would be dangerous.”
The rate of new coronavirus cases in most parts of England has now returned to the level of last winter.
The number of patients has risen to the level of about three months ago.
In England, the daily average number of deaths reported by people who died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 has increased slightly.
But this is still far below the figures for January and February this year.
The Royal College of Medicine said in a statement: “There is no doubt that the situation will get worse before it improves.”
