THE Queen's Medical Centre has missed its four-hour target for dealing with patients arriving at the emergency department.
For February, the average wait was 56 minutes longer.
The Government expects 95 per cent of patients in A&E to be looked at within four hours, and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust – which runs the QMC and City Hospital – has set its own target of 98 per cent.
But board papers show that for February, 92.8 per cent were seen within this time frame.
The trust said high levels of emergency admissions coupled with the closure of nine wards contaminated with the highly-infectious norovirus had caused the delays.
