How 12-hour A&E waits may be up to SIX TIMES more common than NHS makes out

How 12-hour A&E waits may be up to SIX TIMES more common than NHS makes out The number of patients waiting at least 12 hours in A&E units is six times than official statistics show, it emerged today.

Currently, health bosses only divulge data on 'trolley waits' — the time between medics deciding a patient needs to be admitted and when they actually are given a bed.

This drastically underplays the scale of the NHS casualty crisis, given that patients may have arrived hours before their condition was deemed serious enough for further treatment. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Trusts reveal thousands of new 12-hour waits (log in required) Health Service Journal
• Revealed: ‘Apocalyptic’ A&E waits that could be driving 1,000 patient deaths a month The Independent