BLIAR 
EELEY
BBC Website, 3 Jan 2006
'A lifetime of feeling breathless'
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust has stopped performing a routine heart procedure - a move which wiped around 100 people off its waiting lists.
Only those judged to be desperately in need of cardiac catheter ablation - which corrects irregular heartbeats - will be seen at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford.
The trust says it needs to make budget savings but critics accuse it of putting waiting list targets before patient welfare.
When Tony Blair had treatment to correct an irregular heartbeat he was back running the country within days looking, as aides said at the time, "fresh and alert".
For Stephen Eeley, who needs the same procedure, the outlook is far less rosy.
He has been kicked off the waiting list at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and now faces a future feeling "tired and breathless".