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The number of A&E units missing targets has trebled in a year, as the Government was accused of presiding over an unprecedented ?summer A&E crisis?.
Between July and September, 39 departments failed to meet the Government?s key target of seeing 95 per cent of patients within four hours, new quarterly figures from NHS England show.
Last year only 14 units missed the target for the same period.
The highest single weekly A&E this year came in early July, at the height of the heat wave. In total, 5,520,522, people visited an A&E ward in England between July and September ? representing 27,000 more visits than the same period last year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ssing-government-targets-trebles-8859686.html
Between July and September, 39 departments failed to meet the Government?s key target of seeing 95 per cent of patients within four hours, new quarterly figures from NHS England show.
Last year only 14 units missed the target for the same period.
The highest single weekly A&E this year came in early July, at the height of the heat wave. In total, 5,520,522, people visited an A&E ward in England between July and September ? representing 27,000 more visits than the same period last year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ssing-government-targets-trebles-8859686.html