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NEW evidence of the potential manipulation of NHS waiting times has emerged in a major report published today by Scotland?s spending watchdog.
Audit Scotland warns that public trust in the system has been jeopardised, and finds numerous examples of patients being listed as ?socially unavailable? for treatment, meaning they fall outside waiting-time targets.
However, the authors said that because the management and scrutiny of waiting lists had ?not been good enough?, there was a lack of evidence about what had happened to patients.
This lack of monitoring, as the Scottish Government and health boards pressed ahead with cutting waiting times, meant there was not enough information available to Audit Scotland to judge whether patients were taken off lists by mistake or deliberately to meet targets.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/nhs-waiting-list-scandal-puts-public-trust-at-risk-1-2801919
Audit Scotland warns that public trust in the system has been jeopardised, and finds numerous examples of patients being listed as ?socially unavailable? for treatment, meaning they fall outside waiting-time targets.
However, the authors said that because the management and scrutiny of waiting lists had ?not been good enough?, there was a lack of evidence about what had happened to patients.
This lack of monitoring, as the Scottish Government and health boards pressed ahead with cutting waiting times, meant there was not enough information available to Audit Scotland to judge whether patients were taken off lists by mistake or deliberately to meet targets.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/nhs-waiting-list-scandal-puts-public-trust-at-risk-1-2801919