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       Have A&E waiting times risen dramatically?
       By: admini5 Date: May 12, 2015, 3:38 am
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       In recent years, the proportion of patients waiting longer than
       four hours to be treated, admitted or discharged has increased.
       As figure 1 shows, the proportion of patients waiting more than
       four hours in A&E hovered around 2 per cent for a number of
       years – an outcome of the 98 per cent target set in 2005. That
       proportion then increased after the coalition government decided
       to relax the target to 95 per cent in 2010.
       Since then, the proportion of patients waiting for longer than
       four hours has steadily risen. In the most recent quarter
       (quarter 3 2014/15) 7.4 per cent of patients (more than 414,000)
       spent longer than 4 hours in A&E – this is a 47 per cent
       increase on the previous quarter and the poorest performance
       since the same quarter in 2003/4.
       Figure 1: Percentage of patients waiting more than four hours in
       A&E from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge
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