title: The 4 hour emergency access target - a patient journey.
abstract: During the late nineties it was not uncommon for patients to wait over 12 hours for admission to hospital and there were isolated reports of patients waiting between 24 and 48 hours on trolleys in accident and emergency and sometimes in corridors. My interest in this problem and the long delays experienced by patients in Emergency Departments in the UK developed during early work with the Modernisation Agency.
authors: Department of AcuteMedicine Director NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Imperial College London Fulham Road London SW10.
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