NHS patients in richer areas get operations earlier

By Dave West2010-04-29T00:00:00

The NHS is operating on patients from richer areas when they are significantly less sick than those from deprived communities, according to analysis carried out by HSJ of the inaugural national collection of patient reported quality measures.

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