Experts warn these patients - equal to one in five of the population in England - risk being neglected and coming to harm as health leaders prioritise higher profile cases.
Experts warn patients waiting for follow-up care risk being neglected. Rishi Sunak has made tackling the backlog one of his five priorities as PMMore than 11million people in need of follow-up hospital care are now languishing on 'hidden' NHS waiting lists, a study suggests.
New analysis by the Reform think tank, based on Freedom of Information disclosures, indicates there are 11.36million patients waiting for follow-up appointments. Each requires the attention of overstretched NHS staff, who could be used to treat new patients or follow-up with existing ones. The number of people waiting more than a year to start hospital treatment was 396,643, up from 389,952 the previous month.
In September, the average category one response time – calls from people with life-threatening illnesses or injuries – was 8 minutes and 31 seconds. The target time is seven minutes. Some 62 trusts provided data, 17 did not respond to the FOI request despite a legal duty to do so, and 39 claimed not to hold the information.
'NHS England must require all trusts to report this data and hold hospitals accountable for talking this hidden backlog.'While East Kent Hospitals has double the outpatient referrals of Nottingham University Hospitals, suggesting it is a bigger acute trust, their follow-up backlog is 513 times that of Nottingham — 516,919 versus 1,008.
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