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or using their life savings to fund private healthcare. delays for treatment on the nhs are a big factor, and hospital waiting lists for operations in england are now a 100 times higher than before the pandemic. here s our health correspondent, matthew hill. i was stood on the roof. i d just been changing a tile. i stepped onto the ladder to come down and i grabbed onto the window to brace myself. unfortunately the window opened, swung out on me, and i was going to fall off the ladder so at the last second ijumped back in self preservation, really, and landed on the tarmac down here on both my heels. andy langford from cheddar is lucky to have escaped withjust a ruined hip. there are now 700 patients in somerset waiting more than 52 weeks for operations. so faced with at least a year s delay, andy felt he had no choice but to go private. booked in within two weeks of the initial phone call and had the surgery a week later. could you afford it? not without help.