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The plan is to clear the four year waits for more than 3,000 patients on lists for hip, knee, hernia and colonoscopy procedures.

Just as we have timelines for things like mammograms and colonoscopies, I would love to see timelines for menopause training where at age 35, we start explaining symptoms to women.

Mr Cannon went for a colonoscopy and, while he was told he did not have cancer, did not get a diagnosis.

A colonoscopy at his local hospital detected a small lesion, found to be early-stage cancer.

Brian Mulhern, the Rhode Islander who put off his colonoscopy, compared the industry to the "legal mafia" - offering protection "but on their terms".