By 2005, there should be a maximum waiting time of six months.
The maximum waiting time for treatment is being reduced from 18 months to 15 months.
But until April this year mental health had no maximum waiting time at all.
Why should national health policies such as the right to maximum waiting times exclude mental health services?
The insupportable reason is that with mental health there is no maximum waiting time as with other areas of NHS care.
The site then displays average and maximum waiting times at that airport during a four-hour time frame, based on data collected at each airport.
The DH said it would honour a commitment first made by Lamb to introduce a maximum waiting time for people with an eating disorder.
He said the Government was investing £1.25bn to improve care and deliver a maximum waiting time of 18 weeks for treatment.
By the end of March, the maximum waiting time for an operation had been reduced to 15 months, in line with the NHS plan.
The aim was to cut the maximum waiting time between seeing a hospital consultant and an operation from 18 to six months by 2005.
It will campaign in the next election on a pledge to reduce the maximum waiting time for an operation to 18 weeks by 2008.
