The government is to take the controversial and potentially unpopular step of scrapping four-hour waiting time targets in accident and emergency departments and instead focus on delivering the “best possible results for patients”, it said. Alexandra Topping and Dennis Campbell, The Guardian.

Best possible results for patients! Is it really too much to ask that we be seen within four hours – if our health service can’t do that then surely something’s wrong – what is needed in our A&E units is more doctors and nurses but that costs money – this has nothing to do with patients and everything to do with deficit reduction – the health secretary Andrew Lansley is nothing but a murderer.