article_snippet: A&E departments across England are 'near breaking point' experts have today warned, as A&E departments across England called for an end to the fixation with the four-hour waiting target.
article_snippet: Nuffield Trust think tank today warned A&E departments across England are 'near breaking point', as A&E departments across England called for an end to the fixation with the four-hour waiting target .
article_snippet: Nigel Edwards, chief executive of Nuffield Trust, and the Nuffield Trust report's co-author, warned: 'England's A&E system is near crisis. '
article_snippet: But the authors of the Nuffield Trust report point out A&E is only part of a broader urgent care system.
article_snippet: There is no doubt that the urgent care system is near breaking point,' they wrote.
highlights_snippet: Nuffield Trust report warns A&E units in England are 'near breaking point'
  