“More than 7 million U.K. citizens are on a waitlist for routine care procedures under the country’s state-run health care program, a new record for the country.
Of the 7 million people waitlisted at the end of August, 387,257 had been waiting for more than a year to begin health care treatments, according to Sky News. The August waitlist numbers are up from 6.8 million people in July, which was the previous highest record since the U.K. started recording the statistic in 2007.”