longer infectious by the end of day five, and we want to use the testing capacity that we've built up to help these people leave isolation safely. new figures from nhs england show the havoc the pandemic has played with waiting times. in november 2021, 6 million people were waiting for planned surgery. 307,000 people have been waiting more than a year for their treatment. and december saw a record number of ambulance call—outs for the most urgent cases, but average response times failed to meet current targets. fraser knows first—hand the impact a delayed ambulance can have. when he had a heart attack six years ago, an ambulance was there within minutes. on new year�*s day he experienced the same symptoms, but this time he was told it would be at least two hours before an ambulance could get to him. this time it was going through my mind of if it�*s two hours for the ambulance just to get here,