15 September 2011 booth 10: 23 GMT by Nick Triggle health correspondent of the BBC News 
there is growing pressure on waiting times, wait the number of hospital patients in England on the 18-week guarantee has jumped to one-third in the last year figures show.
More than 28,000 outside of the official statistics showed objective - an increase of 34% from the same month last year, was waiting for had the 300,000 seen in July.
Those who more than six months waiting for rose 55% to more than 9,000.
But as a whole is the NHS still hits his target, to see how were 90.6% 90% of patients in 18 weeks.
The 10%-Spielraum is allowed, to take account of the fact that some patients can choose, wait longer to personal or medical reasons.
However, the increase in the number, the people, is further proof of the growing pressure on waiting times in health care to over 18 weeks.
PressureIt reflects similar patterns seen in the last few months, meaning that the promises of the Government to ensure the 18-week is strictly to be tested in the autumn and winter when hospitals tend to get busier.
Some of the longest waiting times are seen in the busiest speciality in the NHS. Orthopaedic treatments need more than 18 weeks almost one in six patients as knee and hip replacement, waited in July.
But Health Minister Simon Burns said that health was still good.
"The vast majority of patients get treatment still in 18 weeks."
"We are committed to performance and the quality of care that provides the NHS, including low wait."
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