A patient who has given up waiting for a hip replacement is travelling to Lithuania for treatment.
Nicky Morris from Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taf, waited 18 months before she saw a consultant.
She will go to Lithuania to get the hip operation done privately, which is costing her £10,000 and has meant her partner has had to take out a loan on his house. Dr Collins said despite the fall in numbers, Mrs Morris's case was "a symptom of failure", and the situation was desperate."If you have chest pain you don't even know if an ambulance is necessarily going to come. We see really tragic reports in the press where people arrive too late.
"However, when you compare Wales to Scotland and England, the absolute amount of time that people are waiting is still considerably longer, particularly at the longest end."On the different figures for the longer waiting lists, he added: "It's probably true that the health services in England and Scotland have put a particularly aggressive emphasis on cutting off the longer waiters first, and had some success in doing that.
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