It dumped over 100, 000 pensioners back into the health service which swelled the waiting lists.
Mr Blair praised teachers and "dedicated NHS staff" and claimed that health waiting lists were falling.
Did a pledge to shorten hospital waiting lists encourage hospitals to give priority to minor cases?
We will see increasing waiting lists and a rising number of people taking out private insurance.
Horror stories abound of long waiting lists, botched installations and deliberate foot-dragging by monopolistic incumbents.
Our organ-donor system depends on voluntary donors, and the network maintains the waiting lists.
Each of the five local health trusts is using the company to reduce waiting lists.
Despite long waiting lists for places, the province has developed a reputation as parent-friendly.
By then, parents on waiting lists often have chosen another school or decided to move.
Health Minister Lesley Griffiths says the new system would reduce waiting lists and save lives.
Government insiders argue waiting lists are inflexible and could be used in a more intelligent way.
NHS's efficiency and success, waiting lists are at best imprecise and at worst actually damaging.
Concerns raised included long waiting lists and being offered "pills instead of therapy" by GPs.
According to the Obama administration, more than 6, 500 Americans are on waiting lists for medication.
In 2002, they gave the go-ahead for trusts to fly in foreign surgeons to cut waiting lists.
They also want to free up houses for the tens of thousands of families on waiting lists.
Clinicenta said it would continue to offer "high quality care" to patients still on its waiting lists.
Mr Lansley told her that the NHS was not being privatised and said waiting lists were down.
But with an estimated 365, 000 children on charter school waiting lists, the demand far outpaces the supply.
In Colorado, we have 56, 000 students in charter schools and more than 38, 000 on waiting lists.
The First Minister said that was a lot of waffle to avoid welcoming the drop in waiting lists.
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The sessions can be delivered in general practice without referral to a specialist, taking pressure off waiting lists.
Tackling hospital waiting lists remains a top priority for the Isle of Man government, says the health minister.
The health service is failing Isle of Man residents over "unacceptably long" waiting lists, a politician has said.
BBC: Isle of Man health service 'failing' over waiting lists
These waiting lists are filled by fatherless youth, put on the list by single moms asking for help.
Mr Hutton defended the government's use of private hospitals to cut NHS waiting lists despite the relatively high cost.
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Labour promised to reduce waiting lists, but the waiting list for the NHS waiting list is up by 248, 000.
Last month, a national Audit Scotland report raised serious questions about the way hospital waiting lists were being administered.
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The government has invested heavily over the past four years to bring the total number on waiting lists down.
The only things that show up on waiting lists are general practitioners' referrals.
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