; Hospitals' Cost-Cutting Methods Set to Be Scrapped

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NHS hospitals are to be banned from cutting costs by setting minimum waiting times and rationing certain treatments following a damning expose of "scandalous" practices, the Government announced.

An investigation earlier this year found waiting times were being deliberately extended in some areas so that patients would go private or die before they were seen to slash costs.

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; Hospitals' Cost-Cutting Methods Set to Be Scrapped

The study by the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP), commissioned by ministers, also uncovered arbitra...

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