Over the next few years the NHS faces two unprecedented challenges: coping with the tightest funding settlement for decades and implementing top-to-bottom reforms of the system. The broad goal of both the productivity and reform challenges is to improve NHS performance and hence the quality of patient care. But both ...
This new analysis of data for the final quarter of 2012/13 shows that nearly six per cent of patients waited four hours or longer in A&E departments, the highest level since 2004. It shows that 313,000 patients (5.9 per cent) spent four hours or more in A&E in the period ...