SIR - Your headline Hospital waiting lists slashed' (T&A, April 23) really made me laugh.
On the same day I received a letter from Bradford Teaching Hospitals informing me that my son, who is two years old, was unable to get a referral to the Child Development Centre at St Luke's Hospital due to the service experiencing difficulties with the number of referrals and activity had therefore been restricted.
Now our GP has to see if he can refer us to a Trust outside Bradford.
My son was referred to the Child Development Centre by the community paediatrician at Bradford Teaching Hospitals who told us there was a waiting list but we would get an appointment.
It's amazing they can cut waiting times but cannot offer an appointment to a two-year-old child.
We were in a similar position last year when we had to wait 28 weeks for a hearing test for him and now have to wait 16 weeks to be seen by an ENT doctor instead of the 12 weeks they stated at his last hearing test.
Long live the overstretched NHS!
Tracey Greenwood, Paley Terrace, Bradford
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