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Editor’s blog Thursday 5 August 2010: Cock-up or conspiracy over Lib Dem minister's concerns over longer waiting times?

Accidents can and do happen. Web hosting renewal gets forgotten.

But it's interesting that just right now,  we can't access the source of this story in the Mirror about Lib Dem equalities minister Lynne Featherstone's blog expressing concerns about private operations lengthening NHS waiting times - which is also referenced on her Twitter feed.

UPDATE: and it's back up again, here.

It is a potent candidate for the academy of Things That Are Not Surprising that if FTs do more private work to maximise revenue, then they are either undergoing an improbable-but-welcome productivity revolution - or more probably, doing less NHS work.

Waiting times will tell us more. Remember them?

Published by:

Mr Andy Cowper

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