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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Missed targets?
Does "missed targets" mean "failed goals"?
Background info:
Northern Ireland's health minister has warned that he is considering charging patients who turn up drunk or high on drugs in the region's A&E hospital departments.
Edwin Poots has claimed missed targets for treating A&E patients are partly due to an influx of people into these departments who are intoxicated and in some cases violent.
Responding to figures showing that from April and June this year, targets for treating patients were missed 700 times in local hospitals, the Democratic Unionist minister said: "The United Kingdom has a great principle of healthcare, free at the point of need to all who need it, irrespective of their ability to pay for it.
"I think it is a wonderful principle but I think on occasions it is abused and we sometimes need to look at how we can make sure that abuse doesn't take place."
Related link:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/11/drunken-a-and-e-patients-charged-northern-ireland-minister
Background info:
Northern Ireland's health minister has warned that he is considering charging patients who turn up drunk or high on drugs in the region's A&E hospital departments.
Edwin Poots has claimed missed targets for treating A&E patients are partly due to an influx of people into these departments who are intoxicated and in some cases violent.
Responding to figures showing that from April and June this year, targets for treating patients were missed 700 times in local hospitals, the Democratic Unionist minister said: "The United Kingdom has a great principle of healthcare, free at the point of need to all who need it, irrespective of their ability to pay for it.
"I think it is a wonderful principle but I think on occasions it is abused and we sometimes need to look at how we can make sure that abuse doesn't take place."
Related link:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/11/drunken-a-and-e-patients-charged-northern-ireland-minister
Top answer
Yes. They had some sort of performance goals, but failed to achieve them.
- Yes.
- They had some sort of performance goals, but failed to achieve them.
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Yes. They had some sort of performance goals, but failed to achieve them.
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SweetFreedomWhat does A&E stand for?Accident and Emergency (room).
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accident and emergency
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- (British) the room or department in a hospital where people who have severe injuries or sudden illness are taken for emergency treatment? people waiting in accident and emergency
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