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I think I have found the solution and it revolves around the fact that there are two sections to the NHS, the Diagnosis and Rehabilitation sector. The reason the Diagnosis' queues are so long is the fact that we on the Rehabilitation side have not enough resources to make the patients become independent again. This means we can't free up space to help reduce the diagnosis queue.
Due to the lack of funding, we as a sector have to keep patients on the "Doctors Books". This basically means what should have been a 3 month rehabilitation period ends up taking 9 months because of the lack of equipment and money available to us. Meanwhile the doctors feel that it's okay to moan, presumably because they haven’t got enough money to fill their Land Rovers and BMW's!
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