University Hospitals Sussex Trust patients waiting 16 weeks for treatment
Patients were waiting an average of 16 weeks for routine treatment at University Hospitals Sussex Trust in February, figures show.
The King's Fund think tank said another national record for the number of people on hospital waiting lists shows the strain on the NHS is reaching “unacceptable levels”.
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Hide AdNHS England figures show the median waiting time for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust was 16 weeks at the end of February – the same as in January.
However, this was more than the average 15-week wait a year previously.
There were 102,771 patients on the waiting list in February – down slightly from 103,278 in January, but an increase on 51,034 in February 2021.
Of those, 6,548 had been waiting for longer than two years.