Heart surgery delay claims challenged

By Deborah Field
Updated November 1 2012 - 3:05pm, first published June 8 2012 - 4:36am
Matters of the heart: The median waiting time for all cardiothoracic surgery at St George Hospital between July 2010 and June 2011 was 17 days. Picture: Louie Douvis
Matters of the heart: The median waiting time for all cardiothoracic surgery at St George Hospital between July 2010 and June 2011 was 17 days. Picture: Louie Douvis

CLAIMS that elderly patients are having to wait more than four months for open heart surgery at St George Hospital have been rejected by the director of operations at St George and Sutherland hospitals, Cath Whitehurst.

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