The ONS survey of about 90,000 adults found that more than one in five (21%) people were waiting for a hospital appointment or to start receiving treatment on the NHS. Extrapolated , this equates to 9.7 million people . In January the waiting list was 7.6 million, NHS data show.
The survey also found that the delays were most prevalent among 16- to 24-year-olds, with 22% saying they had experienced waiting times of more than a year.
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