By 2005 it is planned to have a maximum out-patient waiting time of three months, and a maximum waiting time for surgery of six months for all procedures.
When the real work was put in to discover what it would cost to deliver - and what it would actually deliver the patient - it turned out be not such a good idea after all.
The First Minister said the most recent figures show that the number of people waiting over 18 months for a first out-patient appointment fell by nearly 40 per cent, the lowest level since April 2001.
BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Wales: First Minister's Questions (05/05/04)
When they carried out a post-mortem on the patient who died, they found some of the brain tissue that had been dying off through Alzheimer's had started to rejuvenate.
After undertaking a bit of self-assigned internet research, Frame sorted out a method to create renders of a patient's fractured forearm using CT scans processed via the open source OsiriX software.
He said the government had also now cut the number of people waiting a long time for an out-patient appointment by 80, 000 from its peak.
The director of nutrition at King's, Rick Wilson, says this simple screening check should be carried out every time a patient goes to see a GP - particularly for older people.
Former Newcastle GP Dr Dave Moor was investigated further by the GMC despite his acquittal following allegations he carried out the "mercy-killing" of a terminally-ill patient.
Paramedics have said that the level of threat against them has led to a situation where one of the crew acts as a look-out while the other attends the patient.
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HMOs refer to the proportion of premiums they pay out for patient care as their "medical-loss ratio"--a chilling choice of words.
"So in all of that, let's not have a message going out that patient safety was compromised - it wasn't, " Mr Poots added.
Ben Pullar, who is autistic and has bi-polar disorder, had two teeth knocked out when he was a patient, then aged 18, at Winterbourne View.
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If your patient-facing software has bugs or is out of date, it leaves a bad impression.
The authors blame "cookbook medicine, " a fixed approach to diagnosis that focuses on a patient's chief complaint and ruling out the worse-case scenario.
Garland received a cut of the thumb, was afterwards made an out-patient of the infirmary, but the wound mortified, produced lock-jaw, and death ensued.
Solanki, trying to launch Martyn Ball out of the ground, perished to a stumping to end a patient, mature 136-ball knock that included 14 boundaries.
"It is a scary thing about any drug-resistant bacteria, when you grow it for the very first time out of a patient and you've only got three antibiotics, one so old that we had to bring it back from the archives, " says Col.
Dr. RUTH BERGGREN (Associate Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases, Tulane Medical Center and Charity Hospital): Sitting in the HIV out-patient clinic, taking care of an uninsured man who's coughing, I cannot get a smear on him to diagnose tuberculosis in the city of New Orleans.
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