‘Sunak has failed on the NHS’ says shadow health secretary as waiting list figures remain high – UK politics live
Prime minister has missed his own targets to cut ambulance and A&E waits', says Wes Streeting as England waiting list figures remain near record levels
The waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has fallen for the fifth month in a row, figures show.
An estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of February, relating to 6.29 million patients, down slightly from 7.58 million treatments and 6.29 million patients at the end of January, NHS England said.
At the end of last year, we promised to change the migration system to deliver the biggest ever cut to migration numbers. And today, we've enacted the final part of that plan.
Taken together, the measures we've introduced will radically reduce legal migration. 300,000 people who arrived in the UK last year, would no longer be eligible to do so under these new rules.
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