YORK'S MP Hugh Bayley says he has secured an important safeguard for patients amid the cash crisis facing the North Yorkshire NHS.
The county's health trust must maintain national standards on patient care, Health Minister Ivan Lewis has declared; and the trust says it is committed to see patients within time limits laid down by the Department of Health.
Comfort of sorts; but patients are still waiting longer for hospital appointments. One wonders how much this will sweeten the pill for them.
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