Almost one in five health trusts are delivering poor quality care outside normal office hours, the most comprehensive investigation into urgent and emergency services has concluded.
The Healthcare Commission also found that proportion of out-of-hours calls categorised as "urgent" varied from under 4 per cent to more than 32 per cent between services, "raising questions" over consistency.
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