OPINION: Waiting lists make us second class citizens; By MONICA McWILLIAMS...

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  March 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ......revealed that waiting lists in Northern Ireland have grown...People from Northern Ireland are second...care. Our waiting lists figures are...people of Northern Ireland get the best...problem of waiting lists can not be...

Hospital waiting lists at new high

Belfast Telegraph;  December 6, 2001 ;     318 words ......57,000 people are now waiting to be admitted to Northern Ireland hospitals for treatment...extra people have joined Northern Ireland's in-patient waiting lists - in just three months...The statistics confirm Northern Ireland as having the longest waiting ...

Hospital waiting lists are longest in UK: watchdog Unacceptably high, says...

Belfast Telegraph;  November 25, 2004 ;     543 words ...Hospital waiting lists in Northern Ireland are the longest...England.The Northern Ireland Audit Office...unacceptably high" waiting lists here when...picture shows Northern Ireland with the...per capita" waiting lists in the UK...

The doctors will see you now Delight as hospital waiting lists are reduced...

Belfast Telegraph;  March 29, 2007 ;     533 words ......years ago when the Northern Ireland health service was shamed by the highest waiting lists in Europe. The move...that the people of Northern Ireland deserve nothing less...done. I think these waiting lists are genuinely coming...continue efforts to keep waiting ...

Shock findings as NI named worst for waiting lists

Belfast Telegraph;  November 25, 2004 ;     265 words ......be set in Northern Ireland after a shock...hospital waiting lists here the...branded Ulster waiting lists "unacceptably...Worryingly, though,Northern Ireland's queues...executive of the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart...management of waiting ...

Waiting lists at new record high

Belfast Telegraph;  June 6, 2002 ;     243 words ...NORTHERN Ireland's hospital waiting lists - already the...of people on waiting lists to fall to 48...revealed that Northern Ireland had the worst waiting lists in Europe. There...executive of the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart...

Waiting lists are 'leading to deaths' Unanimous support from Assembly for...

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  September 19, 2001 ;     598 words ......prematurely because of Northern Ireland's spiralling waiting lists, it was claimed last night...emphasise that, here in Northern Ireland, we are entitled to equal...key element in reducing waiting lists. Clearly there is an allied...

100 YEARS; ..that's how long it will take to wipe out waiting lists at...

The Mirror (London, England);  August 14, 2003 ;     406 words ......wipe out hospital waiting lists in Northern Ireland. There are almost...work under way on waiting lists, including initiatives...evidence that long waiting lists are encouraging more...of funds to reduce waiting lists and there will be...million pounds to ...

Ulster's 'hidden' waiting lists Official figures 'do not show full...

Belfast Telegraph;  September 9, 2004 ;     363 words ......waiting to get on the waiting lists.In addition, Dr Patterson...the BMA Council in Northern Ireland, said more and more...rather than sit on NHS waiting lists - yet there were...of the situation. "Waiting lists are getting worse...waiting to get on ...

Fall in hospital waiting lists

Belfast Telegraph;  March 6, 2003 ;     45 words ...HOSPITAL waiting lists have fallen in Northern Ireland for the first time in three years. Official figures released today will show a headline figure of 57,500, down from over 60,000 in the last quarter. However Northern Ireland still has the longest waiting lists in the ...

'Superdoctors' could slashop waiting lists

Belfast Telegraph;  October 15, 2004 ;     242 words ......operating across Northern Ireland. Dr Jeni McAughey, Northern Ireland chair of conference...reduce the long waiting lists we have in Northern Ireland."They can offer...GPs working in Northern Ireland soon."The specialist...

Era of long waiting lists coming to an end: Goggins

Belfast Telegraph;  December 15, 2006 ;     539 words ......their patient waiting lists. "I am absolutely...over a year ago Northern Ireland's waiting lists were the worst...patients were on Northern Ireland's in-patient...that the NHS in Northern Ireland could " deal...

Waiting lists row; Health Minister accused of awindow dressing hospital...

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  December 5, 2003 ;     401 words ......dressing the hospital waiting list figures in Northern Ireland. While it was revealed...Andrew Dougal, of the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke...for helping to cut waiting lists for heart surgery...sent patients outside Northern Ireland for treatment. ...

Stormont probe into waiting lists

Belfast Telegraph;  May 27, 2002 ;     251 words ......of so-called "hidden" waiting lists. The SDLP's Tommy Gallagher...not included on official waiting lists because they have not...yesterday that patients in Northern Ireland face among the longest queues on Britain's waiting lists for tests for illnesses...awaiting NHS ...

Uk and South 'can cut our waiting lists'

Belfast Telegraph;  February 6, 2004 ;     157 words ......hospitals across Northern Ireland to send more...treatment - so that waiting lists can be dramatically...by-pass surgery. "Northern Ireland has the longest hospital waiting lists in Europe...with hospital waiting lists, it would act...