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Challenging medicine: how to influence the agenda in foot surgery

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Podiatric Surgery and <strong>the</strong> NHS: <strong>the</strong> DoH<br />

A Department of Health view (1996):<br />

“…it’s access that, I th<strong>in</strong>k, has won <strong>the</strong> day. Cost ultimately will creep <strong>in</strong><strong>to</strong><br />

it, but…it’s been accessibility…<strong>the</strong> wait<strong>in</strong>g list for podiatric <strong>surgery</strong> is<br />

three months and no longer. In orthopaedics <strong>the</strong> average is way beyond<br />

patient charter norms”

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