NHS hospitals in England are under severe pressure, with figures showing waiting lists at record highs. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.placeholder image
NHS hospitals in England are under severe pressure, with figures showing waiting lists at record highs. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Revealed: The waiting times of every department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals

The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment across England are at record highs. Below are the size of the queues in the busiest departments at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

NHS hospitals in England are under severe pressure, with figures showing waiting lists at record highs.

The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has grown to 6.4 million, the highest since records began in April 2007.

Trauma and orthopaedic departments have the largest waiting lists, with 731,000 patients queueing for treatments such as knee and hip replacements, 55,000 of whom have been waiting over a year.

Here are the figures for Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

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