Sunday shows round-up: NHS waiting lists will continue to grow

Sajid Javid – 5.9 million are on NHS waiting lists

This morning the Health Secretary Sajid Javid took to the TV studios in a week where his departmental remit has been very much back in the spotlight. The Austrian government has announced that it will be going back into a nationwide lockdown, and there is heavy speculation that Germany might do the same. Javid told Trevor Phillips that the UK was still following ‘Plan A’ and that a winter lockdown was still very unlikely, but confirmed that things were far from rosy in the National Health Service:

SJ: People waiting for elective procedures is around 5.9 million, and as I’ve said… this number is going to come up before it goes down.