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A&E patient figures rise sharply

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More people are turning up at hospital accident and emergency units than ever before. Many of them do not need to be there and it is costing the NHS a fortune. That's what the Nuffield Trust has concluded. Its director, Dr Jennifer Dixon, and John Heyworth of the College of Emergency Medicine, discuss why more people are going to A&E.


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