Wes Streeting comments on RCEM analysis that 1.65 million patients waited 12 hours in A&E last year

Wes Streeting MP, Labour's Shadow Health & Social Care Secretary, commenting on the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s analysis that 1.65 million patients waited 12 hours in A&E last year, said:

“Thanks to 13 years of Conservative failure to train the staff the NHS needs, people can no longer be sure the NHS will be there for them in an emergency.

“24 hours in A&E isn’t just a TV programme, it is the reality for far too many patients.

“Labour will double medical school places and train 10,000 more nurses a year, paid for by abolishing non-doms, so patients are treated on time again.”