direct to your inboxThe number of Greater Manchester patients waiting more than a year for operations has rocketed to almost 30,000 - as the region’s health chief admits the NHS here could take as long as three years to return to normal.NHS England data shows that at the end of January 2020, 55 people across the region had been waiting over 52 weeks for planned elective surgery, such as knee or hip operations.Twelve months later, the figure was 28,777 - accounting for nearly one in ten of patients in that position nationally.
The numbers are also considerably higher than those projected by the system in a leaked report last September, which had forecast figures of 20,400 by March.
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