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Article: Sturgeon axes so-called hidden waiting lists
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced she is to scrap
"hidden" waiting lists.
The move will see the introduction of a new more flexible system
for hospital appointments.
From the start of next year, patients will not lose their maximum
waiting time guarantee if their treatment is of low clinical priority
or too highly specialised, she said.
"This new SNP government will do in our first year what the last
government failed to do in eight years - ensure that hidden waiting
lists in our NHS are a thing of the past," said Ms Sturgeon
yesterday.
She went on to describe in detail the new system which will
replace "availability status codes" in waiting lists from next year.
Quarterly figures ...