NHS considers deliberate three-month waits for routine ops Patients needing hip, knee and cataract surgery face being deliberately kept ‘on hold’ on hospital waiting lists for a minimum of three months.
Under a controversial scheme to save money, patients will be made to wait a minimum of 12 weeks before they can even be considered for routine operations.
Managers claim some patients will get better while they are waiting and decide they no longer need the potentially life-changing surgery.
But critics said bosses were hoping patients would go private – or die – before their operation so the NHS would never have to pay. The Daily Mail
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