The health board said people on a waiting list for surgery who had not been given a date for their operation might be offered another form of treatment or day surgery, depending on how urgent their situation was.
The process went quickly, and before I knew it I had a date for the operation.
I went through a massive battery of tests in the rapid diagnostic unit at the Surrey Marsden in about two hours flat, which resulted in a firm diagnosis five days later and a date for an operation.
Preferably, once a date for the operation has been proposed, there will be no changes as a matter of patient satisfaction – unless there is no alternative for dealing with such priorities.
Following this, if an operation was deemed suitable, patients were given a date for an elective operation.
She wrote: "I need to be clear that the St Helena government cannot be held liable for any losses for any businesses that anticipated a definite start date for operations.
Indeed, she has reassured me that once I have a date for the second operation, she intends to clear the decks and be here with me.
Construction on both plants has stalled and neither has announced a date for the start of operations.
"A date for them to commence operations can't be set until we have a completed application," said Raymond V. Casey, the commission's executive director, "and right now I can't tell you that we do".
How to define terrorism, Page 1. Israel, noting that Mr. Bush had not named a date for withdrawal, continued its operations, but there were suggestions that they might last only days instead of the weeks Israeli officials had been suggesting.
PDC-El Paso set a May 2002 start date for operation.
