NHS hospitals are still cancelling more than 22 THOUSAND appointments every day

More than 22,000 hospital appointments are being cancelled every day — despite waiting lists for treatment standing at a record 6.8million, it emerged today. The Government has pledged to tackle the NHS care backlog but some patients are continuing to see their appointments cancelled multiple times. In the same year, the number of appointments axed 10 or more times was 1,325 — an increase by 50 per cent compared to 2019 when it was 900, according to the data. Emergency unit data shows that three in 10 Britons were forced to wait longer than four hours in A&E departments in August, while nearly one thousand per day waited for 12 hours Ambulance response times recovered slightly in August but the time taken for paramedics to arrive on the scene was still well above targets Cancer patients starting treatment within two months of an urgent referral increased from 59.9 per cent in June to 61.6 per cent in July. They added: 'We are working with NHS England to build additional capacity in hospitals by recruiting 50,000 more nurses by 2024, and are opening up to 160 community diagnostic centres across the country – 92 of which are already open and have delivered 1.9 million additional checks – in addition to the 92 surgical hubs already open to help diagnose and treat patients more quickly.'