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 data also revealed 66% of trusts who replied had at least one cancer patient forced to wait over six months to start treatment, and 69% had a worse longest wait than in 2010.
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"i hit the lottery," derek valenzuela, now 45 and a professional baseball scout for the chicago white sox, said of being born into the family.
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