A&E failures causing 600 deaths a year, says MP  

• Financial watchdog finds postcode lottery for trauma care • Critically ill patients in English hospitals have 20 per cent less chance or surviving than patients in US hospitals. Commenting on the publication of the National Audit Office's report on major trauma care in England, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, said: “It is appalling that up to 600 people could be dying unnecessarily every year because of failures in the management of major trauma care. What is truly outrageous is that these failures are not new; they were first identified over 20 years ago. “If you are critically injured in a road accident, your survival chances could very well depend on the hospital which you are taken to. “As a result of the Department of Health's institutionalised apathy, the chances of someone with a critical...