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...“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....
...The share of patients in England waiting longer than four hours for emergency care in hospitals was five times higher last year than 10 years ago, official figures show....
...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...
...The strike will end at 7am on December 23, leaving the health service to prioritise urgent and emergency care for 72 hours....
...Access to quality urgent and emergency care for life-threatening conditions “depends too much” on where patients live, MPs said....
...Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, said: “People can no longer trust the NHS will be there for us in an emergency.”...
...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”....
...Julian Redhead, national clinical director for urgent and emergency care, said that despite pressures including record demand for emergency care and an increase in Covid-19 cases this summer, category 2...
...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....
...A plan to boost urgent and emergency care published in January suggested that around one in four patients who were unable to be discharged despite being medically fit to leave hospital were awaiting home...
...The Department of Health and Social Care said the government was “working to achieve one of the fastest and longest sustained improvements in emergency waiting times in the NHS’s history”....
...Last winter, ambulance response times, including for life-threatening emergencies, reached their worst ever levels and patients faced record waits in A&E departments....
...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....
...The waiting list for non-emergency hospital care in England has fallen slightly for the first time since the start of the pandemic, to 7.19mn from 7.21mn people, as ministers face pressure to halt a wave...
...Private equity’s presence in US medical care has also come under growing scrutiny from industry watchdogs....
...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...The government’s plan to address a crisis in urgent and emergency care in England will fail to deliver unless the NHS can tackle severe staff shortages, experts have warned....
...the hospital’s endlessly overstretched A&E department....
...Under UK consumer protection law underpinning the competition watchdog’s Green Claims Code, companies should take care not to exploit consumers who may be vulnerable due to their age or credulity....
...At the same time, all hospitals with a major A&E department will have same-day emergency care units, staffed by consultants and nurses....
...On that hot night, eight ambulances were waiting outside, unable to offload because there was no way of clearing the patients from A&E on to wards or back home for follow-up care....
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...One in 10 people had to wait more than 12 hours in hospital emergency departments in England in February, highlighting the pressures facing the NHS as it coped with a third day of strike action by junior...
...Ambulance response times and waits in A&E departments in England are at record levels, according to official data that lay bare the alarming levels of pressure on emergency care....
...Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the RCEM, estimated that between 300 and 500 people were dying as the consequence of delays in urgent and emergency care each week....
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