Summary
Heart attack patients in Devon and Cornwall face a postcode lottery when they need emergency "clot-busting" drugs, a new report suggests.
Although all four Westcountry hospitals surveyed met targets on giving patients clot-busting treatment within half-an-hour of hospital admission, they all failed to meet a target of giving the treatment within an hour of an emergency call.See the full content of this document
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Treatment Targets On Heart Attacks Missed
The Government has set hospitals a target of giving at least 75 per cent of heart attack patients clot-busting dru...
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