PMBlackburn published Queen's Medical Centre medics coping with demand but warn of...

The city's hospitals are coping under the strain of increased demand this winter – but health chiefs have warned that the months ahead will be tough.While medics have only managed to see 78 per cent of patients turning up to accident and emergency within four hours – a time target set by the government which is supposed to be met 95 per cent of the time – no patients have waited for 12 hours on trolleys and staff are managing to keep some beds free.Last year, during a...