The NHS is being pushed past its limits, following years of cuts, staffing shortages and the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sufferers now face lengthy ready occasions for medical procedures and even ambulances in instances of emergency.

As Statista’s Anna Fleck particulars beneath, this state of disaster is pushing increasingly more individuals to show in the direction of non-public medical insurance.

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Information from Statista’s Client Insights exhibits how the share of UK adults utilizing medical insurance has practically doubled prior to now yr.

The place the proportion of adults paying for personal medical insurance hovered at roughly the 12 p.c mark since 2019, within the newest survey wave, ending in December 2022, the determine had climbed to 22 p.c.