{"id":88082,"date":"2017-02-05T20:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T01:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88082"},"modified":"2017-02-05T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T01:06:20","slug":"long-way-to-recovery-3-7-m-britons-in-waiting-for-hospital-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/05\/long-way-to-recovery-3-7-m-britons-in-waiting-for-hospital-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Way to Recovery: 3.7-M Britons in waiting for hospital treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2013England has shown a 163-percent increase in a number of people waiting for hospital treatment longer than 18 weeks stipulated by the National Health System (NHS) regulations compared with the figures of 2012, local media reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people, waiting for hospital operations, such as knee replacement, longer than the NHS rules stipulate, has shown a significant growth since 2012 and is exceeding 350,000 at the moment, the BBC broadcaster reported citing the figures made public by the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>A total number of people waiting for hospital treatment in England is about 3.7 million at the moment, the media outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the broadcaster, the number of &#8220;long waiters&#8221; in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has also increased since 2012 by 95, 82 and 74 percent respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, the British Red Cross referred to huge waiting hours in UK hospitals as a &#8220;humanitarian crisis.&#8221; According to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, 485 people in England spent more than 12 hours last week on trolleys in hospital corridors.<\/p>\n<p>The media outlets also reported that at least 23 UK hospitals have declared the highest level of alert this week as the facilities are struggling to cope with the overcrowding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2013England has shown a 163-percent increase in a number of people waiting for hospital treatment longer than 18 weeks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[14716,14717],"class_list":["post-88082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-hospital-treatment","tag-national-health-system","mauthors-sputnik-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}