Where did you get these figures from Bob?
I have found a Guardian article from 2019 which mentions iti
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...by-five-months
but I have also found a Kings Fund article which is at first glance a bit different although there is a mass of data in there which would take a lot of time to go through.
Obviously you are blaming austerity and I am sure that is a factor, although the Kings Fund article suggests it is far more complex than that.
And before you jump to one of your erroneous assumptions which you have been so fond of doing of late no I am not saying that austerity has nothing to do with it and that the Conservative government has nothing to do with it that is not what I am saying
Juts that your short paragraph is really a bit too simplistic. The subject is far too complex than just a couple of sound bites