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Waiting lists in England have fallen slightly, after previously rising for three months in a row, NHS figures show.

An estimated 7.39m treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of September, relating to 6.24m patients, down from 7.41m treatments and 6.25m patients at the end of August, PA Media reports.

The NHS waiting list is 230,000 lower than July last year, even as the health service approaches its limit' with A&E and ambulances facing record demand ahead of winter.

The overall waiting list for September was 7.39m (an estimated 6.24m patients) down 15,845 compared to the previous month and 230,000 fewer than July 2024.

Thanks to the investment and modernisation this government has made, waiting lists are falling and patients are being treated sooner ...

The past year is the first time in 15 years that waiting lists have fallen. There's a long way to go, but the NHS is now on the road to recovery.

In the work of UN experts in monitoring counter-terrorism laws globally, abuse of laws to proscribe organisations as terrorist that are not genuinely so has more commonly occurred in states that are authoritarian and lack legal and political cultures of respect for human rights, legality, due process and independent judicial safeguards, in order to target civil society organisations, human rights defenders, political dissidents and minorities.

It is deeply concerning that such practices appear to have spread to a number of liberal democracies. Organisations must never be listed as terrorist for engaging in protected speech or legitimate activities in defence of human rights.

We are concerned that proscription and its consequences result in unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and the rights to take part in public affairs and to liberty.