‘A sustained threat to patient safety’: Hospitals across the country swamped by record numbers in A&E

‘A sustained threat to patient safety’: Hospitals across the country swamped by record numbers in A&E Hospital emergency departments across the UK are at breaking point with record numbers of patients swamping A&Es, raising fears that lives will be lost, The Independent can reveal.

Some hospitals have been forced to declare major incidents in the last few days because of the swelling numbers of patients.