Crowding and its Consequences: RCEM insight report Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a major threat to public health and represents a serious policy challenge that must be urgently tackled. Although it is present in health systems across the globe, it has worsened significantly in recent years in the UK due to the severe mismatch between demand and capacity in the NHS. Increasing patient demand coupled with high hospital bed occupancy has resulted in exit block - the key reason for crowded EDs. Royal College of Emergency Medicine
See also:
- At least 4,500 patients in England have died because of 'shocking' overcrowding at A&E and 12-hour ambulance handover delays in the last year, damning report finds The Daily Mail
- More than 4,500 people died after waiting 12 hours on hospital trolleys last year The Daily Telegraph
- A&E overcrowding in UK ‘killing thousands a year’, say doctors The Guardian
- A&E waits ‘kill’ as long delays drive thousands of patient deaths The Independent
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