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Wonder how long the "secret" wait is for people with no access to  
health care?

John


On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:46 AM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:

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> More good news on National Health Services!
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> http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Secret-wait-for-cancer-patients.5451457.jp
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> Secret wait for cancer patients
> Published Date:  12 July 2009
> By Eddie Barnes
> CANCER patients are still waiting as long as a year to get life- 
> saving hospital treatment, despite ministers' claims waiting time  
> targets are being met.
> Scotland on Sunday has obtained official hospital by hospital data,  
> unpublished by the Scottish Government, which shows that for certain  
> types of cancer, patients in some units are waiting an average of  
> 100 days before getting treated.
>
> In the most extreme case, an Edinburgh patient with urological  
> cancer – likely kidney, testicular or prostate – had to wait 375  
> days after first seeing the GP before getting treatment.
>
> In May, Scottish ministers revealed that they had met a target to  
> ensure all "urgent" cancer cases were seen within 62 days. However,  
> the figure does not include the thousands of so-called "non-urgent"  
> cases – classified as such because GPs have not flagged up cancer as  
> a possible cause of their illness.
>
> In total, some 27,000 patients are diagnosed with cancer in Scotland  
> ever year. But only 9,500 of them were classified as "urgent" by GPs.
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