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Article: Qld: Waiting lists "dropped off the radar" - inquiry
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- August 25, 2005
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AAP General News (Australia)
08-25-2005
Qld: Waiting lists "dropped off the radar" - inquiry
By Jade Bilowol
BRISBANE, Aug 25 AAP - Former Queensland Health Minister Wendy Edmond reneged on a
promise to resolve "hidden" waiting lists at hospitals statewide because the issue had
"dropped off the radar", an inquiry has heard.
One of Ms Edmond's first press releases as health minister, tendered to the Morris
health inquiry today, said that her investigations into hospital waiting lists "reveals
a massive unofficial list of would-be patients who haven't even made the official list".
The inquiry is examining the work of disgraced Indian-trained Dr Jayant Patel - dubbed
"Dr Death" - who has ...