One in ten A&E patients is back in casualty within a week Almost one in ten Accident & Emergency patients are returning to hospital within a week, amid growing difficulties getting to see a GP. The new figures from NHS Digital show that last year, almost 2 million patients who went to A&E were back again within seven days - a 72 per cent rise from 1.1 million in a decade.
In total, there were 24.8 million A&E attendances in 2018/19, the figures show - a rise of more than a fifth in a decade. The Telegraph
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