Heart Patients Dying As Waiting Lists for a Scan Grow, Say Doctors ; Bonus for Gps Who Meet Referrals Target 'Means Queues of Non-Urgent Cases'
Daily Mail › September 27, 2004
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HEART patients are dying because waiting lists are being swamped with non urgent cases, doctors claimed yesterday.
They blamed attempts by family doctors to meet Government targets for patients to have ultrasound scans.See the full content of this document
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Heart Patients Dying As Waiting Lists for a Scan Grow, Say Doctors ; Bonus for Gps Who Meet Referrals Target 'Means Queues of Non-Urgent Cases'
If GPs succeed in sending more than 90 per cent of heart patients for the scan, they receive an annual bonus of Pounds 450.
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