Labour to take 18-week wait over border

Labour has pledged to halve maximum waiting times to 18 weeks from referral to treatment by 2011. Its Scottish election manifesto, launched on Tuesday, also commits to cut waiting times to see physiotherapists, clinical psychologists and chiropodists to nine weeks.

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