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As Covid cases build, more people waited over 12 hours for a bed at one Greater Manchester hospital trust than anywhere else in the country - top medics say "it's dangerous and unsafe"

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What do you think? Have your say in the comments below here. Overall, the number of people waiting 12 hours or more for a bed - once being assessed at A&E as needing one - has more than quadrupled in Greater Manchester compared to this time last year.Pennine Acute saw the biggest numbers but is not the only hospital trust in the conurbation to appear towards the bottom of the national league table.Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust, which was hit sooner than many others by high numbers of Covid patients, was tenth worst out of the country's 200-plus hospital trusts on the same measure.Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which oversees Stepping Hill hospital, was 12th.Separately Stepping Hill hospital also had the worst four-hour wait.

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