Acute care

Four-hour A&E standard is the ‘wrong target’, claims Javid

By 2022-01-26T06:31:00

Sajid javid

The four-hour standard for A&E waits is the ‘wrong target’, which ‘doesn’t work’ and leads to ‘perverse outcomes’, health and social care secretary Sajid Javid has said.

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