THE number of patients waiting in emergency wards for more than 12 hours has doubled in a year, we can reveal today.

The lengthening waits in A&E were branded “obscene” by patients’ groups yesterday but the Government insisted a £50million investment plan shortened waiting times over the past six months.

The waiting times scandal is worst in the backyard of Health Secretary Alex Neil.

Reported by the Daily Record. You can read the full story here.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.