Punishing doctors for providing a service that is necessary for peoples' health is becoming increasingly indefensible. Elderly patients struggling to get around on osteoarthritic hips or knees face the risk of falling every single day. If the hip breaks while they are on a two year waiting-list their risk of death within the next 12 months rockets to 50%
The elderly are becoming disposable. Excuses are made every day for this patently-broken system that keeps them disabled and helpless. We must demand an alternative to the inhumane political policy of waiting lists for cost control. If that means insured private care then so be it. 
"Patient-centred" care is care that identifies the person's need and finds a way to resolve it. Think about that and then ask yourself whether two years on a waiting list meets the definition.