Exclusive: Alarming shortfall of specialists stops about 4,000 procedures a day, many for patients in urgent need of surgery The NHS is unable to perform 1. 5m operations a year because of a drastic shortage of anaesthetists, a report reveals. More than 8 million patients are on waiting lists ac...

Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/11/nhs-anaesthetist-shortage-prevents-operations)

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