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the longest one patient waited for treatment following a gp referral in 2017 was 541 days - against a target of 62 days.
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the obvious reason: their big-spending pharmaceutical advertisers would drop them like hot potatoes. .
.senator: sir, i have the numbers in front of me. how can you keep this secret from the public?