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A BLOOD-CURDLING collapse in A&E services was laid bare yesterday by figures directly linking closures to the worst waits in England.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the plunge “should send a shiver down the spine of every single community in the country” after statistics revealed that a third of emergency patients at trusts in Staffordshire and north-west London waited over four hours to be seen.
Only a year ago the number seen within four hours stood at around 90 per cent.
Since then plunging budgets have seen 24-hour emergency care at Stafford’s main hospital axed and one of North West London Hospitals Trust’s three A&E departments shut, as well as neighbouring Hammersmith.
Yesterday’s weekly statistics left the two trusts bottom and second from bottom respectively.
