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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates one in 72 of those patients will have died because they were left in A&E waiting rooms before a place on a ward became available.
ANDREW NEIL: In truth, three-quarters of a century after the founding of the NHS, there is little to celebrate. Pictured is patients lining the corridor at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool.