The NHS is set to abandon its flagship guarantee that patients at A&E will be treated, admitted or sent home within four hours, under plans unveiled by health service bosses on Monday.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
That's NHS England. Not Scotland, not Wales, not NI. In fact not in 3 countries of the UK where you also hope to sell your parochial paper.
Which NHS? Scotland, Wales, NI or England?
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