I'm fairly sure that half a min of extra searching for stats would have turned up number of patients treated over that 12 year period - up 12% excluding covid,

I'm fairly sure that half a min of extra searching for stats would have turned up number of patients treated over that 12 year period - up 12% excluding covid, which pushed waiting lists up massively. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/key-facts-figures-nhs https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/key-facts-figures-n... TBH I think most of the recent spending has been in management, rather than where it actually needs to be, so that doesn't help. As mentioned, outperforming here is a relative benchmark vs the US, as stated in the article.