PEOPLE suffering from cataracts may benefit from a multi-million pound cash injection that could see waiting times for operations slashed.
Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has been awarded £3.2 million to reduce the waiting times for cataract operations to as little as six weeks.
The funding is part of a national initiative that aims to have waiting times for operations down to three months by December 2004.
It is hoped the extra cash will help waiting times in Cheshire and Merseyside fall to three months or less by summer 2004.
A spokesman for Warrington Hospital said the SHA has not yet decided how the money will be dispersed. In Cheshire and Merseyside there were 9,772 people waiting for cataract surgery at the end of March this year. More than 4,800 of these had been waiting between three and eleven months for treatment.
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