Article: Call for waiting list answers

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 ...

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