Backlog has reached its lowest level for two years in the treatment of regular hospitals in England.

Data for the end of April dropped the waiting list below 7.42 million in March to 7.39 million.

But this is nine years when NHS has met its target of 92% of patients seen in 18 weeks – currently it is below 60%.

The government has met one of its major missions for this Parliament-and on Wednesday announced up-explosion for NHS in the coming years to help achieve it.

In response to the latest data, Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said: “We are putting NHS on the road for recovery.”

And he said it was “just beginning”, as additional investment was announced in the review of expenditure, which would see an increase of 3% per year in the NHS budget in the next three years, jointly with the reforms announced in the 10-year plan due to the next month, which will help in constructing it.

In the waiting list, the decline in numbers, which cover the people waiting for regular treatment such as hip and knee operation, came after March, the number of increase was seen – the first waiting list increased in six months.

Although the month -door -to -a little ups and downs are generally seen, the government said that it was clear that the numbers waiting were on the trend below.

The summit took place in September 2023, when the waiting list climbed to about 7.8 million.

Meghna Pandit of NHS England said that progress is being made “Thanks to NHS staff”.

“We are firm for patients to continue on this trajectory, because employees work for patients waiting for care, and there is heavy pressure on services, we are beginning to see a real difference in our services.”

The government said that the major goals for cancer care and A&E continue, although there are signs of progress.

Health services in the rest of the UK are also remembering their major goals.

The Chairman of the Society for Acute Medicine, Dr. Tim Kuksley said that England still had significant problems, stating that the number of 12-hours waiting in emergency departments had increased in the last month compared to last year.

He said that there was a lack of social care available in the community in front of hospitals.

This causes delayed discharge where patients may not fit to leave the hospital, as they require support to return home or return home. This in turn slows down the capacity of hospitals that they come to new patients for A & E, or regular treatment.

He said: “Social care remains inadvertently – and will do for the future of the future after the announcement of expenditure reviews – so patients will continue to wait in the extended period of time and often in the corridors.

“The issue is that, for all rhetoric of investment, schemes and solutions, the government focuses on a very short quick victory that will fail to give effective and permanent changes.”