"John Rumm" wrote in message
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Pete C wrote:

It was given by Alan Milburn as an arbritary estimate, but a look at
what is being debated is more revealing. Essentially the Govt believes
that lower waiting times means less deaths. However in reality this
may mean more urgent cases are being deferred in order that less
urgent cases are being treated within the maximum waiting time:

The usual triumph of spin over substance (or in fact lives in this case).


And practised by all parties of what ever colour, politics having become
more about PR than policies in the last 25 years or so, why else do they
employ advertising and PR guru's....

John Hummphy's, like him or not, does have a point about the babble that is
now spoken by politicians.