Health spokesman Rhodri Glyn Thomas is quoted as suggesting that less emphasis should be put on waiting list figures.
So the pressures that then come on to doctors are to distort waiting list figures, to push through GP referrals.
The announcement coincided with another set of disappointing nationwide waiting list figures.
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The latest waiting list figures show that while lists for inpatient procedures and operations continued to fall in June, 42, 000 more people were waiting more than 13 weeks for their first outpatient appointment in April, May and June.
The Liberal Democrats' Business Minister, Eluned Parrott, accepts "there are some caveats to the statistics" but the long list of figures, going back over many years and a pattern that points inexorably downwards, dropping heavily in year to 2009, is proof, she says "that Labour have monumentally failed the people of Wales".
The larger point is that there is now a surprisingly long list of respected figures who have said a "helicopter drop" - a dose of money-financed fiscal stimulus which is never paid back - is worth talking about, even if they do not necessarily want to do it right away.
He pointed to Nova Friburgo -- the hardest-hit city, according to government figures, which list 335 deaths due to flooding there.
That list includes prominent, responsible figures on both sides of the Atlantic.
Roosevelt and Frank Sinatra to Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Taylor, the hotel's guestbook reads like an A-list of twentieth century historical figures -- not to mention tens of thousands of well-to-do tourists and travelers.
Among the other London figures on the list is Deborah Glass, a commissioner at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, who is appointed OBE, and the Labour MP for Lewisham and Deptford, Joan Ruddock, who becomes a CBE.
Banking, which figures mightily in this list because loans count as assets, is shifting.
Government "action teams" are to be sent into seven hospital trusts after figures revealed severe waiting list problems.
Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, and deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, are on the list, along with other leading figures from government and the opposition.
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The celebrity-studded Los Angeles-area figures highly on our list as well.
Since their split Willis has maintained his position as one of the most important world film stars and this week was ranked ninth in a list of the most powerful showbiz figures.
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The Liberal Democrats' Liam McArthur said the figures read like a "list of broken promises".
Several public figures were added to the growing list of those facing corruption charges.
This being the inaugural "Most Powerful" list, we assessed the power of public figures throughout their careers, with particular attention to current clout.
To that list I'll add another set of figures that will tell us in Wales a great deal - regional Gross Value Added figures.
Influential figures in political life on the list include Lord Carlile, 63, the former independent reviewer of anti-terror laws who is made a CBE for services to national security while Labour MP Joan Ruddock becomes a dame.
Although Tolchinsky owns seven Spock dolls -- "one Spock isn't that cool... a lot of Spocks is like an interesting disease, " he says -- he has further items on his Amazon wish list, including a ring for his wrestling figures, and believes there's a robust business reason for them.
Ministry of Justice figures showed there were 584 people on the list last year, up 45 from 2011.
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Figures released by the Welsh Assembly in April showed waiting list numbers had fallen by 10, 000 since the previous year.
The others, mostly senior figures in Golkar, either never made it on to the list of defendants or were let off by the courts.
Brazil is fifth in the top 10 of illegal immigrant nationalities in the UK, according to Home Office figures for 2011, and is the only country on the list for which short-term visitors do not need a visa.
Our list, done by the American Hospital Directory, is based on operating income figures that hospitals must report to the federal Medicare program each year.
At a moderated conversation between Mehta and Sir Salman in the previous edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, the two key figures behind the film revealed that they had originally approached A-list Bollywood stars for the key roles.
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