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Government Misses Own Waiting Times Target

12.00.00am GMT Thu 11th Feb 2010

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Governments fails to meet own key NHS target for treatment

Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for Gwent, Michael German, has criticised the statistics which show the government failed to meet their target that all patients would be treated within 26 weeks.

Commenting, Michael German said, "26 weeks is a very long time for anyone to have to wait for treatment. Our waiting times are far higher than in England and it simply is not acceptable for Welsh patients to wait so long.

"The Minister needs to get a grip on this. The Government has set many targets on a variety of issues yet seem to miss them time and time again. This begs the question what are the targets even for?"

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