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Thursday, 16 May, 2002, 06:11 GMT 07:11 UK
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Managers blamed for cancelled operations
Thousands more UK patients could be treated every year on the NHS if hospitals improved the way they work, an official report suggests.

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 | Head of the Audit Commission, Sir Andrew Foster: "One of the worst problems... is key staff taking unexpected holidays" real 28k
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 | NHS Chief Executive Nigel Crisp: "The rate of cancellations for individual operations is less than one percent" real 28k
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Managers blamed for cancelled operations
Thousands more UK patients could be treated every year on the NHS if hospitals improved the way they work, an official report suggests.

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Also:
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 | Head of the Audit Commission, Sir Andrew Foster: "One of the worst problems... is key staff taking unexpected holidays" real 28k
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 | NHS Chief Executive Nigel Crisp: "The rate of cancellations for individual operations is less than one percent" real 28k
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Head of the Audit Commission, Sir Andrew Foster: "One of the worst problems... is key staff taking unexpected holidays"
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NHS Chief Executive Nigel Crisp: "The rate of cancellations for individual operations is less than one percent"
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The BBC's Sophie Hutchinson reports
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