Davey's 'guarantee to cut length of A&E wait times'

PEOPLE in England would be given the right to be seen within 12 hours in A&E as part of a £1.5billion plan proposed by the Liberal Democrats.

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Party leader Sir Ed Davey will pledge a “legal guarantee” to limit the length of so-called “trolley waits” for patients to be allocated hospital beds.

The Lib Dems say their plan would be funded by scrapping the Government's pharmaceuticals deal with Donald Trump's US which could see the NHS pay billions more for drugs.

The agreement keeps American imports of UK medicines tariff-free for three years in return for the NHS raising its threshold for spending on new treatments by 25%.