Hospital waiting times 'under-recorded by three weeks'
Some hospitals are failing to accurately monitor how long thousands of their patients are waiting for treatment, a National Audit Office report has found.
Hospitals not 'deliberately' hiding waiting time figures
The health secretary defended hospitals against mounting criticism they were deliberately under-reporting the amount of time patients were waiting for an operation.
Jeremy Hunt told Daybreak the National Audit Office talked about "inconsistencies" in figures, and were "very careful not to say that hospitals were deliberately misrepresenting" waiting times.
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