25 Oct 2022

Surgery waitlist taskforce has recommendations but no targets

From Checkpoint, 5:38 pm on 25 October 2022

A task force set up to try to get thousands of people off surgical waiting lists has delivered a long list of recommendations but no target for when to get them done.

The Planned Care Taskforce is trying to find a way to cut through the waiting lists that have been getting longer every day.

Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.

 

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