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From the annals of Socialized Medicine

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Worried that your government-funded medical system may be “over-performing”? (No, i’m not kidding.)

The solution is simple. minimum waiting times.

The measures also seem certain to add to the anger that erupted last week after Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk admitted it had forfeited £2.4 million because it treated patients too quickly, having already agreed a 122-day minimum waiting time with East Suffolk Primary Care Trust (PCT), its funding body. The hospital finished the last financial year £16.7 million in the red.

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