Hospital waiting lists for treatment in Bury continue to rocket with 79 per cent more patients experiencing delays than since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Under the NHS Constitution, no patient should wait longer than a year to start treatment but in January there were 1,248 Bury patients with such waits.
Of these, 120 people had waited more than two years to be seen – as Bury health chiefs expressed fears that it could take up to eight years to clear the backlog in treatment.
When a patient is referred to a consultant-led team of a secondary care provider, they are added to a planned care waiting list with the entry referred to as an ‘incomplete pathway’.
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