In the next few days, once the data has been collected, the Government will come out and say that, thanks to its policies, the situation in A&E is improving.
Despite estimates released recently by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that soaring waits for A&E beds led to more than 250 needless deaths a week in England alone last year, the Government will point to declining numbers of patients who breached the four-hour target this March.
The four-hour target means we're meant to see and either discharge or admit patients within four hours of their arriving in A&E.
But it's a sham, writes Professor Rob Galloway in the Daily Mail. Because, for the past month, the four-hour data has been manipulated, the result of two policies introduced earlier in the month by the Government.
Source: Daily Mail, 3 April 2024
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