The Department of Health has reported further falls in the numbers of patients waiting for diagnostic tests during the month of June.
The number of patients waiting more than six weeks fell by 14.2 per cent compared with May - a 95.2 per cent fall since June 2007.
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The NHS is planning to collect unprecedented “granular” details about patients’ care nationwide and make that information available to researchers, HSJ can reveal.
An estimated extra quarter of a million patients a year could be referred to the private sector under new waiting list rules, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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