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Article: MPs lament waiting list cull
- Article from:
- The Press
- Article date:
- August 16, 2006
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As public dissatisfaction over cuts to surgical waiting list
grows, The Press canvassed several of the South Island's electorate
MPs for their views on the cuts and asked them what they were doing
to help those who found they were no longer scheduled for surgery.
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Ruth Dyson, Banks Peninsula (Labour)
Dyson said letting the waiting list grow was not satisfactory and
she was unhappy with the way it was being managed, particularly
having so many people taken off the list in one go. She advised her
constituents to go back to their doctor to make sure that their
status was correct. "A critical part of being taken off the waiting
list is the management of that person," she said.
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Colin ...