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In February alone, nearly 150,000 patients (11.3 percent) were left languishing in crowded casualty units for at least half a day. In nine NHS trusts scattered around Lancashire, Cornwall, and Kent, the rate was above 20%. It comes after a shocking report today revealed that urgent waits in A&E for hospital beds caused more than 250 needless deaths this week, with patients compelled to wait in crowded rooms and corridors or on trolleys. To solve the crisis, Dr. Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said 'urgent intervention' is required.

MailOnline discovered that two-thirds of patients in England's busiest hospitals had been waiting 18 weeks for treatment. Anyone referred to medical care by their GP has the right to be seen within the timeframe under the embroiled health service's own rulebook. Some patients have been told they face two-year waits, requiring them to travel to Lithuania for what amounts to routine NHS services. Others in the UK needing surgery and unable to get it through the NHS have earned pensions and family savings, desperate for an end to their health woes. In the meantime, MailOnline's investigation revealed that only a third of patients attending A&E are seen within four hours at the country's worst-performing hospitals.

The Cheltenham General Hospital unit closed this morning at 8 a.m., just after the national three-day junior doctor strike came to an end. It will be off from 8 p.m. on January 1 until 8 a.m. on January 9, the next wave of British Medical Association (BMA) action, which will be the biggest to ever rock the NHS. Patients with life-threatening illnesses will be diverted 30 minutes to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for emergency care. Health officials have already warned that the forthcoming move could result in 'huge change' in 'almost all' routine care. It comes at a time of year for hospitals, which are now experiencing record backlogs. One A&E patient in Kent was forced to wait for a ward bed to become available, indicating the acute pressures facing the NHS before the strike carnage comes.

Martin Miles had plied a pupil with alcohol before requesting him to sit in his lap while annoyed and urged him to watch pornography, according to the panel. The hearing was also told that the pupil attempted to sexually assault the baby in the bath and that on another occasion he had pulled down his trousers 'for punishment,' with the panel finding that he had done so 'for his own sexual pleasure.'

The United Kingdom has a rich past that draws millions of visitors each year, from Stonehenge to The Tower of London. Nevertheless, thousands of common items have roots so deep within British history that many people would not question where they came from. MailOnline explores some of Britain's historical achievements.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Jones (pictured), a young boy from High Halden, Kent, visited his GP in May after he started suffering from severe cramping, diarrhoea, and nausea. However, the 38-year-old's doctor dismissed his signs as anaemia. The self-employed painter and decorator was admitted to hospital later this month after he collapsed at home due to the pain, where hospital medics advised him to perform urgent tests. However, further delays meant he was only diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer six weeks later, during which time his wife gave birth to twins. Mr Jones, who has lost four stone in a matter of months, has since undergone surgery to eliminate the tumor and is set to begin chemotherapy.

For the first time in history, teachers at the country's oldest school are going on strike. Bosses at King's School in Canterbury, who was established in 597AD, are likely to walk out next week in a pension dispute. Teachers have notified members of the National Education Union, who represents teachers, who have declared their intention to protest after staff were consulted by the school.

East Kent Hospitals Trust told Louise Dempster, 34, who underwent a C-section at The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital in Margate, that her baby's size had caused haemorrhage. However, the near-fatal incident was really caused by surgical error, which was later covered up by Trust workers for seven years. The truth was finally revealed during a study into inadequate maternity care at East Kent Hospitals Trust, which was published in October.

It comes just days after a damning inquiry found that up to 45 babies may have survived if East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust had better care.

According to the author of the damming investigation into the East Kent maternity case, where 45 babies died needlessly, NHS staff who lie to conceal poor care in the health care should face a criminal charge. According to the damning study, at least 45 babies died prematurely as a result of 11 years of 'deep-rooted' neglect in care at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust. 97 babies and mothers suffered as a result of 'deplorable' care by maternity workers, some with lifelong injuries. Dr. Bill Kirkup (inset) said that this is just the latest maternity crisis to rock the health system, and that greater reform is required to 'break the cycle.' He recommended that a 'public service accountability law' be enacted in order to ensure that businesses are prosecuted if they stage cover-ups in future tragedies. It would be a legal obligation on public bodies to be transparent and not to mask problems,' he said. According to the study, NHS trusts can't always be trusted to tell the truth when they go wrong, and instead focus on'reputation management.' 'The default reaction of nearly every company subjected to public scrutiny or criticism is to think first about protecting its image,' it reads. Dr. Kirkup also recommended that a national platform to detect worrying trends in NHS hospitals' maternity data be established so issues could be identified earlier and a tragedy prevented. Tommy (left) Bex Walton (bottom left) is one of the children who died at the Trust. Danielle Clark (right) and her son Noah (bottom right) had a challenging birth at one of the Trust's hospitals. This must be the last maternity crisis to strike the NHS, according to families.

Bill Kirkup published a study seven years ago into what was then one of the most troubling maternity scandals to have struck the NHS. He wrote of a 'distressing chain of events that started with serious medical care's failures, the results of which was 'unwanted harm to mothers and babies, including tragic and unnecessary deaths.' Who'd have guessed the slew of scandals that would follow. Morecambe Bay was the launch of Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust in Shropshire, but Nottingham is still on the horizon; each new outrage lay bare a litany of tragedy, shaking the confidence of families in maternity services in the United Kingdom, and eroding morale in a beleaguered profession.

Following the recent 'catastrophic' maternity controversy that has shamed our health care, devastated families were left asking, 'how many more babies must die.' At least 45 babies died unnecessarily as a result of 'deep-rooted' health problems at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, according to a damning report published yesterday. 97 babies and mothers died as a result of 'deplorable' care provided by maternity workers in total. The numbers were "minimum estimations," investigators said, and that a lack of meaningful intervention could have resulted in similar incidents elsewhere.

Harry Richford (left), who was born on his due date at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, in 2017, was one of the first cases of poor care that went public. Hallie-Rae Leek (top right) died in April this year and it took 22 minutes to revive her. Archie Powell (bottom right) died on February 14, 2019, after medics failed to detect an infection, but his sister Evalene survived.