Every year in accordance with section 13A(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41), as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7), the Secretary of State must publish a mandate...
‘It is the sheer magnitude of these events which is driving growth rather than the underlying background growth due to demographic change, and slow incremental increase in the use of emergency...
‘The reality is that the pressure our A&E departments and ambulance services are experiencing is absolutely not a sign of failing services, but that these services have become victims of their own...
