>> Over how big a catchment area did this extra 170 cases occur?
About 100,000, it's difficult to be exact as there are 3 hospitals in the trust of which 2 are major (full service). The two major hospitals are 20 miles apart with a population of about 250k.
The hospital is only taking the very worst cases. I did mention the other day that some patents were so bad that a specialist team from London had to come down with their own equipment to perform some major procedures on some young patients.
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>> Seems like someone somewhere in th system might have over committed in the lull.
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Cancer and other ill patients can only wait so long for life saving surgery.
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