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Sometimes, the patients have to face the waits for 12 to 15 weeks after they have been recommended surgery, this results in deterioration of health.
Earlier, health regulators had exposed that the patients experience extended delays’ which result in either withdrawing from the services or by paying for the treatment by their own or they die.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley had warned the GP’s over the delay, and stated that the standard of care should be enhanced so that better treatment facilities were available for the patients. The government had asked the medical experts to cut down the waiting times and 18 weeks period was not acceptable for recommendation and treatment procedure.
Around 100 PCTs in England were asked about the extended waiting times, and 10 of them disclosed about the increase of minimum or average times.

GP’s from Gloucestershire and Wiltshire prefer 15 weeks waiting times for elective surgery and that of Hertfordshire compel 12 weeks waiting time. In South West Essex, the time compelled by the authorities is between eight and
12 weeks and in Coastal Kent authorities prefer the waiting time between 13 and 16 week




It has been reported that a drug is in the process of clinical trial. If the drug is approved by the medical experts then it would be used to control the chances of brain stroke. It has been informed that the drug has been formed by using proteins found in the vampire bat's saliva.
The drug thus formed is potential of thinning the blood, making its flow free of disturbance. At present, the drug is being examined by about 40 hospitals of the UK, over 400 patients. The drug, which is being prescribed to a patient of brain stroke, takes about four hours to work on the patients. The newly drug will work in effective way as compared to the present treatment.
The newly-found drug is being described by the scientists as a breakthrough in the science. The drug has been named Desmoteplase, which could be given to patients while they are enjoying their sleep. The heart patients are at high risk of succumbing to brain stroke as the flow of blood is damaged by the blood clots. These blood clots are then drifted to brain causing brain stroke. In some cases patients are even required to go through a surgery.