HUNDREDS of people have been kept waiting for more than 12 hours in the accident and emergency department of Bronglais Hospital. 

The latest figures from the NHS show that in November, 85 patients spent 12 hours or more in A&E before they were admitted to hospital, transferred or discharged.  

The proportion waiting this long is up on the same period in 2016.  

Targets set by NHS Wales say that no-one should have to wait 12 hours or more in casualty and that 95 per cent of patients should be seen within a lower target time of four hours. 

No major hospital is hitting the lower target and the figures for November show that at Bronglais 85.2 per cent of patients were dealt with in this time. This means that 345 of the 2,336 casualty cases spent more than four hours waiting. 

Over the same period in 2016, the hospital dealt with 93.7 per cent of patients within the four-hour target. 

The best performance across Wales in November was at The Royal Glamorgan Hospital where 91 per cent of emergency patients were seen within four hours. The poorest performance was at Morriston Hospital, where it was just 64 per cent.

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