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NHS hospitals must meet A&E targets, Hunt says
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told NHS hospitals they must get back to meeting the target for seeing A&E patients within four hours.
The news comes after a BBC report found A&E waits for January were the worst ever recorded.
NHS hospitals are currently set a target of seeing 95 per cent of patients in four hours, however, in December only 86.2 per cent were seen within this time frame.
Speaking to a Reform think tank, Hunt maintained that meeting the target was ‘critical for patient safety’ and demanded that the target should be met by March 2018, after new funding was announced in the Budget.
Hunt claimed that the new money will be used to help tackle the problem of bed blocking, where patients who were fit to leave hospital could not be discharged because of a lack of suitable care in the community.
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