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NHS Providers: Trusts are struggling to cope

World at One

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The chief executive of NHS Providers, the association for those providing emergency care in England, has warned that the current strain on accident and emergency departments "patently" is not sustainable long term. Record numbers of patients are facing long "trolley waits" for a bed after being admitted into hospital as an emergency in England, according to documents leaked to the the World at One. Chris Hopson told Martha Kearney "the vast majority [of NHS Trusts] are just about coping." (Photo: Ambulance outside accident and emergency department. Credit: Press Association)

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