Patients suffering as direct result of NHS wait-time failures

In January a record 81,003 people in England spent at least four hours on a trolley as they waited to be admitted to a hospital.Doctors’ leaders spoke out after figures showed that the NHS in England recorded its worst ever performance last month, including against the politically important four-hour A&E treatment target.Just 77.1% of patients who sought help at a hospital-based A&E unit were treated and admitted, discharged or transferred within four hours – a record low aga