Tuesday, 12 February 2019

A&E departments working ‘beyond limits of resilience’, emergency chiefs warn as waits grow

A&E departments working ‘beyond limits of resilience’, emergency chiefs warn as waits grow The performance of A&E departments in some trusts is below levels set in last year’s record-breaking winter crisis, according to emergency medicine bosses who warn staff and bed shortages mean hospitals are “at or beyond the limits of their resilience”.

Despite milder weather and the absence of a major flu outbreak, which added to 2018’s “perfect storm” of pressures, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has said conditions in A&E are “grave indeed”. The Independent 

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