On balance though, the fulfilment, and with luck demise, of the waiting-list pledge should be welcomed.
While the waiting-list taskforces are looking at such matters, ministers doubt that they will lead to big savings.
There is anecdotal evidence that the waiting-list target has skewed clinical priorities, with easily-treatable cases being given undue attention to bring the numbers down quickly.
When necessary, though, he has defended the waiting-list pledge, arguing that politicians ought to keep their promises, and that waiting times fall in parallel with the length of the lists.
Ministers have also achieved their target of cutting 100, 000 people from the waiting list - but for little political gain.
Then, he would never change its models: what was the point, when the firm had a ten-year waiting list?
Hunters of elk, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope are even more devoted--there can be a two-year waiting list during hunting season.
The shares don't help fans get hold of coveted seat licenses, for which a team spokesman said there is a 93, 000-person waiting list.
While she took all the prerequisites for nursing school in the U.S., she would have had to be on a two-year waiting list.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. does 7, 000 executive exams a year, up from 4, 000 in 2002, and has a six-month waiting list.
Eddy said his business is one of the few in the country to specialize in pet taxidermy and has a two-month waiting list.
They were criticised for removing patients from the 18-week waiting list when they refused to travel to England for treatment, marking them as "unavailable for social reasons".
The health board was criticised for removing patients from the 18-week waiting list when they refused to travel to England for treatment, marking them as "unavailable for social reasons".
There is a year-long waiting list for the bikes he constructs at his workshop in Hackney Wick, a former industrial area of East London which has been colonised by young artists and craftspeople.
And he doesn't dwell on what the episode might mean to U.S. residents on the donor-organ waiting list or to foreigners applying for legal immigration who might have congestive heart failure and dream of treatment in America.
Enthusiasts from all over the world will travel to the island this summer for the chance to drive the restored train - as part of the 'Ultimate Driving Experience' project, which currently has a two-year waiting list.
Its critics - fewer today than they were before - will use any longer waiting list, any hospital closure, any problem to claim ministers made things worse - which is ironic since the authors of the original NHS reforms thought they were taking the politics out of the health service.
However, this number was down from 55 who died while on the waiting list in 2007-08.
Truro City Council has come up with a way of reducing its five-year allotment waiting list.
Since Wirtz took over running the Blackhawks, the season-ticket base has grown from 3, 400 to 14, 000--with a waiting list of 4, 000.
The waiting list for under-2 care at the Vanderbilt YMCA Early Childhood Center in Midtown is nearly two years long, meaning few children on the list will ever land a spot.
Some conclusions might have been expected: that there was some evidence - not quite conclusive perhaps, but evidence all the same - that the waiting list target regime really did increase the number of patients treated by English hospitals compared to Welsh ones.
He has sold out every home game since--and has a waiting list of 50, 000 people seeking future season tickets.
She says currently there are 3, 000 people on a waiting list and a three-year waiting period to receive a whole eagle.
"Tower Hamlets has a dire shortage of affordable housing with over 22, 000 on the waiting list and considerable over-crowding issues, " its spokesman said.
One in five consultants questioned also said they had treated less severely ill or disabled patients in preference to those with more severe problems - simply to fulfill waiting list initiative requirements.
In Labour's first term, the big goal was to cut the waiting list for elective (non-emergency) patients needing hospital operations, such as hip replacements.
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When Petya DeVallance was in her first month of pregnancy, she put her daughter on the waiting list for a private infant-care program in a home in Astoria, Queens.
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