this time dr harverd thinks she can help.t have to go privately for this one, i'm sure i can help you with this one. 0k, thank you, bye—bye. the workload here is just kind of absurd, i mean, it's overwhelming. from the other end, if you're a patient, you get to see a gp like dr harverd, and you then get referred, chances are you willjoin a very long waiting list — there are over 5.6 million people queuing for treatment in england right now. that's 1.3 million more than at the start of the pandemic. this month the government announced they'll be investing £36 billion on nhs and social care for all four home nations up to 2025. 10 billion of that has been committed to address the backlog in england. we need to pay for those missed operations and treatments. and we need to go beyond the record funding we already provided for the nhs. i have to level with people — waiting lists will get worse before they get better. what does that mean? i think it means two things. number one, we can expect the waiting list to continue to grow as