Tonight

Season 23, Episode 28

Episode Title: NHS: The Longest Wait?

Air Date: 2021-08-26

Overview:

For 18 months it's been all hands-on deck in the NHS as it grapples with the most deadly pandemic in a century. The knock-on effect has been enormous too, with warnings that mounting delays to cancer treatment and other life-threatening illnesses could create their own shocking death toll. As a new SOS is sounded over the longest waiting lists since records began, Romilly Weeks meets doctors, patients and families and asks what can be done to clear the backlog?