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Newly-released figures show the number of patients forced to wait up to 12 hours in Accident & Emergency (A&E) departments have tripled in four years.
The data presented by National Health Service (NHS) England on Thursday showed that 23,663 patients waited between four and 12 hours on an A&E trolley in November compared to 6,579 cases in the same month four years earlier.
The figures also showed that 52 patients were forced to wait for more than 12 hours in November compared to just two cases in the same month in 2010.
Chris Hopson, the chief executive of the NHS Trust Foundation Network, which represents all NHS hospitals, said that in many parts of the country, health services were “overwhelmed.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/19/390898/uk-patients-waiting-in-ae-triples/
The data presented by National Health Service (NHS) England on Thursday showed that 23,663 patients waited between four and 12 hours on an A&E trolley in November compared to 6,579 cases in the same month four years earlier.
The figures also showed that 52 patients were forced to wait for more than 12 hours in November compared to just two cases in the same month in 2010.
Chris Hopson, the chief executive of the NHS Trust Foundation Network, which represents all NHS hospitals, said that in many parts of the country, health services were “overwhelmed.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/19/390898/uk-patients-waiting-in-ae-triples/