Queues for cure?
- 1 April 1995
- Vol. 310 (6983) , 818-819
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6983.818
Abstract
The patient's charter enshrines the right to admission for treatment within two years of being put on a waiting list. It does not distinguish between the different procedures for which people wait, although since 1986 separate targets have existed for hip and knee replacement and cataract operations. The NHS Executive acknowledged that patients for whom “delay in investigation or treatment …Keywords
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