while on the campaign trail. politicians are to question senior police in northern ireland about a data breach which led to police officer s details being made public. the number of people in england waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to 7.6 million a record high. an 80 year old former 0lympian with parkinson s disease and a mother and daughter board virgin galactic s first space tourism flight, which blasts off today. let s get more now for you on ecuador. the ecuadorian president, guillermo lasso, has said the country s presidential election will go ahead as planned this month after a candidate was shot dead at an event in the capital, quito. fernando villavicencio was killed in a burst of gunfire as he was getting into a car. let s get more on this with matias zibell garcia from bbc mundo.
our health correspondent reports. it s been a difficult few months for the nhs in england. strikes led to more than 100,000 cancelled hospital appointments in june alone. health bosses have been struggling to shift a backlog of treatment caused in part by the pandemic, though waiting lists were rising long before covid hit the uk. andrew battye from north yorkshire was told he needed skin cancer removed in december last year, but is still waiting. it s very worrying. i m very scared, really. everything you read says it is an easily treatable form of skin cancer as long as it s treated early. and this, to me, it will be eight months later and that is not early treatment in my opinion. the latest figures for england show there are now 7.6 million people like andrew on the waiting lists for an nhs procedure or treatment. of those, 383,000 have been
estimated 7.6 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end ofjune, up from 7.5 million in may, the highest number since records began in august 2007. more than 380,000 people in england have been waiting more than 52 weeks to start routine hospital treatment at the end ofjune, down slightly on the end ofjune, down slightly on the previous month. the government and nhs england have set the ambition of ending all waiting times of more than a year by march of 2025. the top line, the number of people in england waiting to start hospital treatments has risen to a record high. an estimated 7.6 million are waiting to start treatment as of the end ofjune. more on the bbc news website and throughout the day on 5 live and on bbc sounds. good morning, abi. goad bbc sounds. good morning, abi. good mornint. bbc sounds. good morning, abi. good morning- what bbc sounds. good morning, abi. good morning. what would bbc sounds. good morning, abi. good morning. what would you bbc sound
and then we had the strikes in various parts of the nhs in england and these figures are for england. nhs england has said 100,000 postponed procedures and appointments injune contributed to this increase. but it s really hard to make any link directly between the two because clearly, hospitals across the systems are struggling with a backlog and is a key pledge of the government to cut this waiting list and certainly after plateauing a bit, it has carried ongoing up. i think hospitals are saying it s getting harder and harder to bring down their waiting lists as well as coping with all the new patients who need treatment. it s almost hard to get your head around the number, 7.6 million people waiting for treatment at the end ofjune. what is the reality for the nhs and people waiting to be
west africa leaders hold emergency talks on the coup in niger homeware chain wilco collapses into administration putting jobs at risk. the number of people in england waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to 7.6 million a record high. within the last hour, it s emerged that the death toll from the wildfires in the us state of hawaii has risen to at least 36 people. large parts of the tourist town of lahaina, on the island of maui, have been burned to the ground. firefighters are still trying to get the fires under control. there were reports some people had jumped into the ocean to escape the fast moving flames. james tokioka, director of the department of business, economic development and tourism