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A new 拢45m outpatient centre is due to open next month as part of an attempt to reduce NHS waiting lists.

The East Midlands NHS Planned Care Centre, based at the former Brandon Unit at Leicester General Hospital, is nearing completion and set to take its first patients from 9 December.

Leicester's hospitals have the biggest backlog of NHS patients waiting to start treatment in the East Midlands. In August, figures showed 114,060 patients at Leicester's hospitals were waiting to begin treatment compared to 65,901 in 2019 - more than any other trust in the region.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said it aims to see up to 100,000 outpatients in the first year for non-urgent procedures including general surgery, gastroenterology and haematology and oncology.

蜜芽传媒 East Midlands Health correspondent Rob Sissons explained more to Ady Dayman.