Waiting list for diagnostic tests in East Sussex reached 7,253 in July - up nearly 40% on 2019
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The research from the House of Commons Library, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, also shows that 12% of people waited more than 6 weeks for one of these tests in July (the NHS target is less than 1%).
The 15 types of tests that make up the list provided by the Commons Library include MRIs, CT scans, Echocardiography, and DEXA scans.
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Hide AdThe proportion of people waiting over six weeks for a diagnostic test is well above the NHS target of less than 1%. In July, in East Sussex it sat at 11.9%, just under 12 times higher than the target. The percentage of people waiting more than six weeks has also spiked since 2019, from under 1% in June 2019, to 11.9% in July, a near twelve fold increase.
Councillor James MacCleary, Lewes Liberal Democrat, said: “What this Conservative government has done to the NHS is nothing short of a national scandal. Thousands of patients in our area are forced to wait in pain and discomfort, anxiously wondering when they will get a diagnosis, let alone treatment.