Over 616,000 patients waiting to start NHS treatment in Wales

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More than 616,000 people across Wales are waiting to start treatment in the NHS. The worrying new figures, released by the Welsh Government today, is the equivalent of one-in-four people in Wales on a waiting list. 616,700 individual patients are yet to begin their NHS treatment – the highest figure on record. The number of […]

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