A&E patient has to wait 32 DAYS as NHS target time is exposed as a sham
Dec 23rd, 2009 | Filed under DailyMail
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Add to My Stories ? Labour’s A&E waiting-time target was exposed as a sham last night after it was revealed hospitals were fiddling the figures. No one is supposed to wait more than four hours in hospital casualty departments before being treated – but patients are waiting far longer and one was not treated for 32 days. Evidence collected by the Tories shows that hospitals often put patients in curtained-off ‘emergency assessment units’ – where they are still waiting but do not count towards the A&E target because they are technically no longer on the ward.
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