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Article: 1,800 vanished from hospital waiting list.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2001
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Byline: ZOE MORRIS
ALMOST 2,000 patients were removed from a hospital waiting list in order to meet government targets, it emerged today.
The latest example of "massaging" waiting list figures occurred when patients' names were removed from waiting lists for treatment at Horsham Hospital, in West Sussex, and East Surrey Hospital, Redhill.
A total of 1,800 patients' names were put on an "unofficial" waiting list and put back on the waiting list at a later date.
The new chief executive of the hospitals trust, Ken Cunningham, asked the NHS ...