article_snippet: File photo shows ambulances parked outside St Thomas's Hospital in London .
article_snippet: Over the past decade the numbers of patients arriving in casualty has soared by 50 per cent with 21.7million in 2013/14.
article_snippet: A&E. Professor Peter Dolton, an economics expert at Sussex University, looked at the A&E attendances at Central London Clinical Commissioning Group, an NHS body covering 34 GP practices.
article_snippet: One way of doing this, He said, would be to use money saved from the reduction in A&E visits which are very costly to the NHS.
article_snippet: The average cost of an A&E visit is £114 compared to a GP appointment which is just £25.
highlights_snippet: Visitors to emergency departments has soared by 50% in the past decade .
  