NHS is on the road to recovery says Streeting, amid falling waiting lists

Almost 100,000 patients were waiting for routine treatment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in September, figures show.

- by Harriet Sutton

It comes as Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the NHS is "now on the road to recovery" as waiting lists dropped slightly across England.

NHS England figures show 87,646 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust at the end of September-down slightly from 88,350 in August, and 88,107 in September 2024.

Of those, 1,525 (two per cent) had been waiting for longer than a year.

The median waiting time from referral at an NHS Trust to treatment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust was 11 weeks at the end of September - the same as in August.

Nationally, an estimated 7.4 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of September, relating to 6.2 million patients. It was down slightly from the number of treatments and patients at the end of August.