Belief the health sector should set targets for all elective surgeries to ensure wait times are reduced fairly.

The Government's exceeded its half-year target, by delivering more than 16-thousand extra operations before the end of June. 

The overall waitlist has also dropped by nine percent.

General surgeon Chris Wakeman told Mike Hosking targets are a good manoeuvre - but they do have their downfalls.

He's worried staff won't be able to deal with smaller and high turnover cases if they don't see them in public institutions.

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