These hospital Accident and Emergency targets annoy the hell out of me. If a hospital is working at 100% capacity in terms of resources available, i.e. beds and staff, but the input number of patients increases, then of course these targets are going to me missed. They are not a measure of the efficiency of a hospital, but a measure of the lack of government investment in beds and staff. What should be measured is throughput numbers based on resources available, not percentages of the input seen within 4 hours. The current metric seems to be a stick with which to beat the NHS.
Yesterday I heard many a royal media commentator saying that the Sussexes can't go into 'trade', as it could tarnish the royal brand with commerce.
Unless, of course, you're the Prince of Wales with your over-priced Duchy Originals and you own vast swathes of the country.
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