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It is rare to miss a target even before we have reached the financial year to which it applies. Target 7 for health and community care states:"No patient should wait longer than 26 weeks for a new outpatient appointment by the end of 2005."
Thank you for attending this meeting of the Rural Development Committee. We have no visiting members to welcome, but we have received apologies from Alex Fergusson.
In Scotland, it was quite embarrassing not to be aware of some wonderful new scheme that was about to be implemented in England, even if it was not used in the end.
Admittedly, he was speaking at quarter to 7 on Tuesday morning, but he said that the issue was not critical when Scotland was in a period of investment in infrastructure.