Nearly half (46%) of National Health Service (NHS) acute hospital groups in England are not currently meeting an interim NHS target requiring no more than 20% of people should wait six weeks or longer to have a diagnostic test, the U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) announced on 1 December.
In September 2025, over 386,000 people waited longer than six weeks -- around one in five on the list. This included over 74,000 people who waited too long to have a CT or MRI scan. The total number of people waiting for a test in England exceeded 1.7 million. People in the East of England were the most likely to wait too long to have a test.
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