Thursday 13 April 2017

Soaring numbers spending 12 hours in A&E, with 100,000 cases in three months

Soaring numbers spending 12 hours in A&E, with 100,000 cases in three months MORE than 100,000 patients have been left in Accident & Emergency departments for more than 12 hours in recent months, amid a five-fold increase in delays, NHS data reveals.

The disclosures triggered warnings of a “serious degradation in patient safety” as the NHS is braced for a surge in A&E pressures over the long Easter weekend.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said waiting times were “going through the roof” with warnings that “the elastic is close to snapping” in some parts of the health service. The Daily Telegraph

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