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Rise in patients waiting for routine treatments
Lancashire Evening Post
|August 23, 2025
Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust in June, figures show.
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While NHS England praised its staff who "pulled out all the stops to treat a record number of patients in any June", health professionals have expressed concerns over treatment waiting times nationwide.
NHS England figures show 63,253 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the end of June-up from 62,348 in May, and 58,299 in 2024.
Of those, 2,068 (three per cent) had been waiting for longer than a year.
This story is from the August 23, 2025 edition of Lancashire Evening Post.
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