Last updated on February 27th, 2018 at 04:12 pm

The BBC report says that in January 2017so me patients had to wait more than 4 hours to be seen in A & E and also that some people who then needed to be admitted had to wait for more than 12 hours to get a bed.

The leaked figures appear to show that the government’s target of seeing (transferring, admitting or discharging) 95% of patients in A & E within 4 hours was missed , with only 82% of patients seen within the target limit in January 2017.  NHS official figures also show that only 86.2% of A & E patients were seen within 4 hours in December 2016.

A further Sky News report, suggests that there are a record number of people waiting more than 2 months to start cancer treatment after an urgent referral.  In 2016 the figure was 25,157, compared to 23,760 in 2015 and 13,191 in 2010.

Graysons’s medical negligence team says:

“The huge pressures now facing the NHS on a daily basis can be seen in the rising trend of diverting patients, long waiting times in A & E, and up to 12 hour trolley waits for a hospital bed. Today’s news highlights that the NHS is failing and can no longer offer a safe system of care as people no longer have access to the urgent care that they need and sadly this may lead to unnecessary complications and fatalities.”

If you have been affected by a delay in treatment of any sort and you would like to know if you are entitled to receive compensation, contact one of our experts now.  We will arrange a free of charge meeting in which we can discuss your case and advise you of the best way forward.

You can find out more about medical negligence claims relating to the failure to diagnose, delay in diagnosing and misdiagnosis of cancer on our web pages.