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Another record-breaking performance on 18 weeks

The English NHS broke new records again in March, with the numbers of patients on the waiting list over 18, 26, 39 and 52 weeks all hitting new record lows, and with all three 18-week targets met.Although the pace of improvement for the very longest-waiters has slowed, the number of over-18-week waiters is down a massive 100,000 year-on-year to just 160,052.One-year-waiters fell to 5,141 (from 5,696 the previous month, and 14,355 a year before), and remain concentrated ...

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