It found that the averagewaitingtime for an operation, once a patient had been assessed by a consultant, remained unchanged at an average of eight months, compared with the NHS maximum target of 12 months.
Although the MIT study does not give margins of error, the 2.6 minute average difference in waitingtime surely falls within a reasonable margin of error.
But the survey annually discovers less obvious trends such as people in the west midlands spend the shortest averagetime on hospital waiting lists, while Scottish 16-year-olds get the best exam results.