Government's NHS Backlog Plan Fails

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Plan to hit 18-week NHS wait target 'set to fail'

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Labour aims to increase the number of appointments and operations done each week by 40,000 , to help hit the 18-week waiting time target.

But NHS Confederation research found that would only deliver about 15% of the extra capacity needed to get back to reaching the target, which has not been hit since 2006 .

Warning comes ahead of the release of a government review of NHS performance later this week .

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