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Waiting times for Accident and Emergency patients at Noble's Hospital has risen by more than 18 per cent in the last three months.
So says Health and Social Care Minister Clare Christian, who faced questions in the House of Keys from Arbory, Castletown and Malew MHK Jason Moorhouse.
She said in November last year, people were waiting an average of 266 minutes - but by January that had risen to 315 minutes.
But she told MHKs the waiting times were still better than in the UK: