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When Sarah started having chest pains in early June 2021, her first port of call was her GP. She was otherwise healthy, 30 years old and busy juggling work and raising her son in Manchester. “My GP had a feel of my chest area and said it seemed as though I had an inflamed sternum. I had never heard of it,” Sarah says.
UK health secretary Javid says NHS waiting lists could double within months to 13 million UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Sunday that the number of people on National Health Service waiting lists could reach as high as 13 million in a matter of months. He told the Sunday Telegraph, “It’s gone up from 3.5 million to 5.3 million as of today, and I said to the officials so what do you mean ‘a lot worse’, thinking maybe it goes from 5.3 million to six million, seven million. They said no, it’s going to go up by millions… it could go as high as 13 million.”