Claim: The number of patients having to wait over four hours for a bed in A&E; increased from 83,743 in 2010 to 641,963 in 2018.
Fact-check: How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed? - Full Fact
Verdict: these figures are broadly correct looking at the number of patients in england waiting over four hours between a decision being taken to admit them to hospital for an emergency and them actually being admitted.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2019-08-23T00:00:00