Winter pressure in accident and emergency departments Accident and Emergency departments in England are managing unprecedented levels of demand. On average, over 40,000 people attended a major, or type 1, accident and emergency department each day across the NHS in 2015–16. Over the same period only 88.2% of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours—well short of the Government’s target of 95%. The variation in performance between providers was also striking, ranging from 64% to 99% in one survey from July 2016.
Achieving safe and timely performance in urgent and emergency care is an increasing challenge primarily as a result of growing and rapidly evolving demand as patients attend with more complex conditions but also as a result of system-wide pressures affecting the ability of the NHS and social care to cope. Health Select Committee
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Achieving safe and timely performance in urgent and emergency care is an increasing challenge primarily as a result of growing and rapidly evolving demand as patients attend with more complex conditions but also as a result of system-wide pressures affecting the ability of the NHS and social care to cope. Health Select Committee
See also:
- The King’s Fund comments on the Health Select Committee’s Winter Pressures in Accident and Emergency report The King's Fund
- A&Es are refusing to take patients parked outside in ambulances The Daily Mail
- Shortage of 3,000 A&E doctors revealed amid warnings NHS faces 'toughest winter yet' The Daily Telegraph
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