Article: WAITING LISTS ON INCREASE Health `broken promises' rap

Article: WALES: I'd rather cut waiting lists than our taxes; ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  September 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... has to be a balance. We have always been the party that has funded social projects. "There is a problem with hospital waiting lists in Wales and I would rather see more funds made available to the Welsh Assembly Government to tackle that problem than cutting ...

Article: WAITING LISTS ON INCREASE; Health `broken promises' ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  February 19, 1998 ;     478 words ... ... Commons yesterday in which Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown claimed ... breaking its election pledge on waiting lists. A Liberal Democrat spokesman said studies indicated that waiting lists rise when the growth-rate ...

Article: NHS waiting lists up 50,000, say Liberals.
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 19, 1998 ;     449 words ... ... Commons yesterday in which Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown claimed ... breaking its election pledge on waiting lists. A Liberal Democrat spokesman said last night that studies indicated that waiting lists rise when the growth-rate ...

Article: Tories hope to win votes over waiting lists.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  April 2, 2004 ;     477 words ... ... Labour supporters who feel let down over hospital waiting lists. And Liberal Democrat voters,fed up with their party's policies ... the state of the NHS in Wales, with hospital waiting lists lengthening. ``Labour have failed to deliver ...

Article: Deacon on defensive as waiting lists rise again
The Scotsman;  August 30, 2000 ;     498 words ...Hospital waiting lists in Scotland have risen sharply ... disappointing for Scottish ministers as waiting lists south of the Border are falling ... manifesto pledge to reduce waiting lists. The Labour-Liberal-Democrat coalition set a target of reducing ...

Article: Waiting lists at a 17-year low, says NHS boss; ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... included in the Government waiting lists. They measure only the ... praising his staff for cutting waiting lists, admitted that the queues ... heart disease and reducing waiting lists for routine surgery. Liberal Democrat health spokesman Paul Burstow ...

Article: ELECTION 2001: NHS reform pledge as waiting lists ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 11, 2001 ;     466 words ... ... election pledge to reduce waiting lists by 100,000 from the ... their operations. Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick Harvey claimed waiting lists had soared since Labour ... the back for doubling waiting lists and achieving a big ...