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Patients in crippling pain for months as NHS orders bosses to deliberately delay operations to curb costs

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Patients in crippling pain for months as NHS orders bosses to deliberately delay operations to curb costs

More than half of health boards in England now enforce minimum waiting times of up to 16 weeks for the likes of hip, knee and cataract surgery.

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