Closing A&E departments lengthens a patient's ambulance journey by nine minutes Paramedics take an extra nine minutes to get patients to hospital in areas where A&E departments have been shut or downgraded.
That's the finding of new research, which says NHS cut-backs are causing 'disruption' and 'anxiety' for people who are forced to travel longer distances to get urgent care.
The study, published in Health Services and Delivery Research on Tuesday, is the first of its kind to look into the impact of closures on both patients and emergency services. The Daily Mail
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That's the finding of new research, which says NHS cut-backs are causing 'disruption' and 'anxiety' for people who are forced to travel longer distances to get urgent care.
The study, published in Health Services and Delivery Research on Tuesday, is the first of its kind to look into the impact of closures on both patients and emergency services. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Closing five Emergency Departments in England between 2009 and 2011: the closED controlled interrupted time-series analysis (open access) Health Services and Delivery Research
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