NHS waiting lists and funding

Downing Street has said the government is “providing the NHS with the funding it needs”, amid warnings of a winter crisis at hospitals.

We have people waiting over a day in A&E, oxygen shortages, ambulances queuing outside hospitals unable to hand patients over to hospital staff leaving people waiting for hours for help to get to them.

Here is a graph on NHS waiting lists from the Financial Times. 

As you can see, under the Conservatives, waiting times have increased, and this graph looks at the funding that the NHS has got over this time.

There are calls from Conservatives that the NHS needs reform, forgetting that reform took place under the Conservatives after Labour were voted out of office in 2010.