{"id":1374,"date":"2019-02-15T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:44:34","slug":"accident-emergency-waiting-times-hit-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/accident-emergency-waiting-times-hit-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Accident and Emergency Waiting Times Hit New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has revealed that it is now almost four years since the NHS in England has met its Accident and Emergency target of 95% of patients being dealt with within four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, January of this year saw the lowest percentage of patients being seen within this timeframe since the target was introduced in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 85% of patients were seen within four hours, leaving the remaining 300,000 to wait until beds or staff became available.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS continues to struggle under the combined pressures of high demand, staff shortages and limited bed capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Medical negligence<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one are suffering with on-going difficulties due to a significant failing in medical care, contact us to talk to a specialist medical negligence solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275 334030\">01275 334030<\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has revealed that it is now almost four years since the NHS in England has met its Accident and Emergency target of 95% of patients being dealt with within four hours. Furthermore, January of this year saw the lowest percentage of patients being seen within this timeframe since the target was introduced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1572],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident-and-emergency","tag-accident-emergency-medical-negligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}