NHS proposes A&E appointments system in targets shakeup

NHS proposes A&E appointments system in targets shakeup Patients may have to pre-book for emergency care as health chiefs look to Danish model

Patients could have to start booking appointments in A&E units, and those with only minor ailments wait many hours before they are seen, under a proposed shakeup of NHS targets.

NHS England chiefs are examining whether to relax the longstanding obligation to see 95% of A&E patients within four hours. Continue reading... The Guardian

See also:

• Target to treat patients within 18 weeks of seeing their GP should be scrapped, health chiefs warn The Daily Mail
• NHS loses £350 million as patients fail to turn up to appointments The Daily Mail