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...However, just 69.7 per cent of patients were seen within four hours in A&E departments, well short of the target of 95 per cent and down from 70.2 per cent the previous month....
...“There’s a problem of those brands being in the hospital — because it’s still an endorsement,” said Dr Rana Conway, senior research fellow at University College London....
...A potential drug offers rare promise in the fight against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” after it successfully targeted a bacterium that causes life-threatening infections in hospital patients, research...
...The NHS has a pledge to admit, transfer or discharge 95 per cent of patients within four hours of arrival in A&E but the data showed this had consistently failed to be met....
...in hospital,” the statement said....
...“Ambulance and A&E delays can cost lives, staff are trying to mitigate safety risks day in and day out but care that was unthinkable a decade ago is at risk of becoming the new normal,” he said....
...Hospitals are particularly susceptible to the spread of superbugs. Cresomycin proved effective against a range of dangerous bacteria prominent in the spread of AMR, the paper said....
...E departments this winter, which are currently under huge strain....
...Just under 71.6 per cent of patients were seen within four hours in A&E departments, well short of the target of 95 per cent and down from 73 per cent the previous month....
...Meanwhile, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust said patients were facing waits of up to 11 hours in its emergency department, and Airedale Hospital in West Yorkshire said its A&E was “exceptionally busy”....
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...It added: “We are creating 5,000 permanent staffed hospital beds . . . and the NHS England’s urgent and emergency care recovery plan has seen improvements made in both A&E waits and ambulance response times...
...Waiting lists for routine hospital care in England have hit a record, in the latest blow to UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s hopes that the backlog will be falling by the election expected next year....
...However, he acknowledged the NHS had been “under increasing pressure with staff experiencing record A&E attendances, hospitals fuller than at any point in their history and with thousands of beds taken up...
...Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on Tuesday said it had temporarily closed the accident and emergency department at Cheltenham hospital as a result of the action....
...the hospital’s endlessly overstretched A&E department....
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...As for emergency cases, there was a longstanding target that fewer than 5 per cent of people would wait longer than four hours to be admitted, transferred or discharged after attending an A&E unit....
...Last winter, ambulance response times, including for life-threatening emergencies, reached their worst ever levels and patients faced record waits in A&E departments....
...And in this tortured analogy, it’s public sector employers — places like schools, hospitals, local police forces etc — who need to source virtual nuts....
...But it failed to prove a clear link between specialist numbers and death rates. In fact, hospital care was found to be just as good or slightly better at weekends....
...Nestled between a 17th century hospital and the busy Austerlitz station, the underground pool will have a capacity equivalent to 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools, and is designed to capture overflow from...
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