NHS: The Longest Wait?
Tonight · Season 2021 · Episode 28
For 18 months it's been all hands-on deck in the NHS as it grapples with the most deadly pandemic in a century. The knock-on effect has been enormous too, with warnings that mounting delays to cancer treatment and other life-threatening illnesses could create their own shocking death toll. As a new SOS is sounded over the longest waiting lists since records began, Romilly Weeks meets doctors, patients and families and asks what can be done to clear the backlog.
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Season
2021
Episode
28
Air Date
26/Aug/2021
Air Time
19:30
Runtime
30 min
Overview
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For 18 months it's been all hands-on deck in the NHS as it grapples with the most deadly pandemic in a century. The knock-on effect has been enormous too, with warnings that mounting delays to cancer treatment and other life-threatening illnesses could create their own shocking death toll. As a new SOS is sounded over the longest waiting lists since records began, Romilly Weeks meets doctors, patients and families and asks what can be done to clear the backlog.
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