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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Stanley Murphy-Johns

NHS trust investigates after ‘unnecessary delay’ for thousands of patients

The patients were waiting for ENT appointments provided by Medway NHS Foundation Trust (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Archive)

An NHS trust has identified 8,849 patients whose referrals to ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists were “not correctly managed”, leading to “unnecessary” delays in care.

The patients were waiting for ENT appointments provided by Medway NHS Foundation Trust (MNFT) operating out of Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham and Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford.

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