article_snippet: Waiting times in emergency departments are at a record high, partly because so many patients are unable to get an appointment with so many patients GP.
article_snippet: Pictured are ambulances queuing up outside the Royal Blackburn Hospital in January .
article_snippet: Figures showed waiting times in England were at Figures worst in a decade – and that in the last three months of 2014 almost 21,000 patients had languished on trolleys for up to 12 hours.
article_snippet: In one shocking case, an 81-year-old grandmother who had fallen in her home had to wait 11 hours for an ambulance and then had another 60-minute wait on a trolley in a hospital corridor.
article_snippet: Some patients reported having to ‘fight’