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MP slams increase in A&E waiting times at RD&E

The MP for Exeter says too many people are waiting more than four hours to be seen at the RD&E hospital's accident and emergency department.... and he blames the coalition government.


Figures produced by the Labour party indicate that when they were in power back in 2009 to 10, only two and a half per cent of A&E patients waited more than the target four hours at the Exeter hospital.

But last year it was up to five and a half per cent.

The waiting time targets were introduced by the Labour government, but Ben Bradshaw says the Government's reorganisation of the NHS,  and cutbacks in social care, are leading to his party's good work being undone.

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