A&E wait times of more than four hours to affect a million more people

Analysis by the BMA predicts that more than 4 million patients could be waiting more than four hours to be seen by 2020

A million more patients could face waits of more than four hours in NHS A&E wards in England by 2019-20 in the absence of urgent action to address rising demand, the British Medical Association has said.

Analysis by the doctors’ union, shared exclusively with the Guardian, projects that the number of people attending emergency wards and waiting more than four hours to be treated could reach 3.7 million in three years’ time, up from 2.6 million in the year ending September 2017.

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