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Article: Call for waiting list answers
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- April 23, 2002
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THE SNP will this week demand an explanation from the health
minister over accusations that hospital waiting lists have been
fiddled.
Almost 6,000 patients have been removed from the official waiting
list by health trusts across Scotland and put into a different queue
which is not recorded centrally.
Daycare patients whose operations do not require full anaesthetic
have been reclassified as outpatients.
They include more than 2,300 patients in Grampian who are still
waiting for their ...