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NHS Waiting Times - Time For A Change?

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More than 7 million patients are on waiting lists for non-emergency operations. That's the highest number since records began 16 years ago. The government solution involves telling GPs to give a range of options to anyone referred for treatment. Is this the only way forward or is there an alternative? We're going to be talking to Chris Thomas from the left-leaning think tank, the IPPR. He wrote a book about how to save the NHS called the Five Health Frontiers - a new radical blueprint.

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