At the end of August, seven million people were waiting to begin treatment, with over 380,000 on the list for almost a year.
In England, the number of patients awaiting standard hospital care has hit an all-time high.
According to NHS England, seven million people were awaiting treatment as of the end of August.
This is an increase from the July total of 6.8 million and the greatest amount since records began in August 2007.
At the end of August, a total of 387,257 people in England had been waiting for hospital care for more than a year, up from 377,689 at the end of July.
This represents one out of every 18 individuals on the waiting list.
At the end of August, 2,646 patients had been waiting over two years to begin basic hospital treatment, a decrease from the previous month’s total of 2,885 and a significant decrease from January’s top of 23,778.
NHS England stated that it wanted to guarantee that no patient waited longer than two years for treatment, save in severe cases or when the patient chose to postpone.
The average wait time for calls from persons with life-threatening illnesses or injuries was nine minutes and nineteen seconds, according to the data. The goal response time for events of this nature is seven minutes.
In September, the average wait time for ambulances to respond to non-life-threatening injuries was 47 minutes and 59 seconds, more than a half-hour longer than the target time of 17 minutes.
In September, the number of patients waiting longer than 12 hours in A&E for a bed after seeing a doctor reached a new record high of 32,776, an increase of more than 4,000 from the previous month.
Last month, a total of 71% of patients in England were seen within the four-hour target time in A&E departments across the country, tying the poorest performance ever.
The national goal is to treat 95% of patients in less than four hours, a goal that has not been met since 2015.
In August, a record amount of 255,055 urgent cancer referrals were made by general practitioners, but only 75.6% were seen by a specialist within the goal time of two weeks, the second-lowest performance on record.
Wes Streeting, Labour’s Shadow Health, and Social Care Secretary, deemed it “completely unacceptable” that NHS waiting lists are now the longest in history.
He said: “As a result of 12 years of Conservative understaffing of the health care, people are unable to work while they wait, so retarding the economy. A strong economy cannot exist without a healthy society.”
“The next Labour government will oversee the largest growth of the NHS workforce in history, which will be financed by the elimination of non-dom tax status. We will teach the physicians and nurses the NHS needs to treat patients and return them to work.”
