PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has eradicated the number of one year waiters from a total of 99 in August 2011.
It has also reduced the number of patients waiting over 18 weeks down to 1,983 in August 2012 from 2,857 in the same period in 2011.
During August the trust had a total of 35,153 patients on its waiting list.
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October 2012
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