Announced this morning that NHS is abandoning the government's target of a maximum of 18 weeks waiting time for important pain relieving operations:
"Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, said the delays could have more serious consequences.
"For hip and knee replacement, it is very painful and very demoralising," she told BBC Breakfast.
"But our concern is not only for hip and knee patients but those patients who perhaps are waiting for heart surgery.
"For them, sometimes waiting for surgery may be a part of a pathway where they may have a heart attack whilst they are waiting.
"Or maybe they are waiting for brain surgery or gall bladder surgery, and all of these are extremely serious matters [but] still fall within the whole remit of planned surgical care."
So they are recommending a kind of DIY approach, like stop being obese.
Well, we are doing a bit of DIY on our village road which is in a third world condition, so I suppose it is a consistent approach.
I have scalpel. Cataracts anyone?
"Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, said the delays could have more serious consequences.
"For hip and knee replacement, it is very painful and very demoralising," she told BBC Breakfast.
"But our concern is not only for hip and knee patients but those patients who perhaps are waiting for heart surgery.
"For them, sometimes waiting for surgery may be a part of a pathway where they may have a heart attack whilst they are waiting.
"Or maybe they are waiting for brain surgery or gall bladder surgery, and all of these are extremely serious matters [but] still fall within the whole remit of planned surgical care."
So they are recommending a kind of DIY approach, like stop being obese.
Well, we are doing a bit of DIY on our village road which is in a third world condition, so I suppose it is a consistent approach.
I have scalpel. Cataracts anyone?
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