A&E units are becoming unfit for purpose – the NHS review findings can’t come soon enough

HOSPITAL A&E units are fast becoming unfit for purpose.

Waits of over 12 hours for emergency care are now routine for patients — a record half a million last year.

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Being treated in a corridor is now standard and delays in finding beds are getting longer.

Yet tax-payer funding for the NHS has never been higher.

Yes, the pandemic caused a massive backlog which is being slowly shifted.