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    Special report: Andrew Lansley to blame for A&E crisis, says quango

    Lowering targets had an 'unintended consequence'

    Andrew Lansley's decision to downgrade the four-hour waiting target for accident and emergency

    admissions may have triggered the current beds crisis, an official NHS quango has concluded.

    A report seen by The Independent on Sunday undermines the Government's position on the A&E crisis

    and will fuel calls for the target to be reinstated.

    An emergency summit last month by the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), a quango that

    monitors the performance of hospitals, concluded that reducing the A&E waiting time target in 2010,

    from 98 per cent of people seen within the four-hour period to 95 per cent, may have had the

    "unintended consequence" of putting pressure on casualty departments.

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