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Walsall Manor Hospital bosses: We will hit A&E targets by June

Health chiefs have claimed the Manor Hospital will hit national A&E waiting time targets by June after failing to reach the benchmark for more than two years.

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Not since May 2015 have hospital chiefs ensured that 95 per cent of patients were dealt with within the required four hours.

But a "Walsall Vision for Emergency and Urgent Care" aims that it will indeed be back to the requirement this summer by introducing a raft of measures.

However the Manor is already underperforming against targets in the plan, which has been drawn up by the cross-organisation A&E Delivery Board.

The aim was for the hospital to be hitting a 90 per cent success rate by last September but despite recent improvement it has not managed above 87 per cent this year, which un-validated figures recorded for November.

The 'Vision' is set to be discussed by Walsall Council's Health and Wellbeing Board on Thursday.