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Jun 14, 2022 · The true total figure of 12-hour waits from time of arrival in major Emergency Departments in England in 2021 will be even higher. These figures show the deep crisis facing the NHS and the Urgent and Emergency Care system.
Feb 28, 2023 · For a long-time we have known that the true scale of long waits in Emergency Departments has been hidden. Long-waiting times are associated with serious patient harm and patient deaths – the scale shown here for 2022 is deeply distressing.
Sep 22, 2023 · A&E: Long waits are up by 80% as “dire” figures indicate pressure on services. Figures showing a 4% rise in the number of patients attending England’s accident and emergency departments in the past year highlight the “severe” pressure on services, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
Ambulance wait times in 2022 were consistently longer than before the pandemic. Average monthly response times for Category 2 (emergency) ambulance incidents. SOURCE: NHS England. Even that best average of 38 minutes is more than twice as long as the target.
In a full hospital, with 100% bed occupancy, the proportion of patients waiting over 4 hours in an ED was 9 percentage points higher than at an 85% occupancy level. Higher numbers of long-stay admitted patients were independently associated with longer ED waits, potentially due to reduced bed flexibility.
- Steven Paling, Jennifer Lambert, Jasper Clouting, Júlia González-Esquerré, Toby Auterson
- 2020
Nov 10, 2022 · “We know excessively long waits and dangerous crowding are associated with patient harm and increased risk of mortality. Scientific studies have shown that there is one death for every 67 patients waiting between eight and 12-hours from their time of arrival in the Emergency Department.
Oct 24, 2019 · A core performance target for the English National Health Service (NHS) concerns waiting times at Emergency Departments (EDs), with the aim of minimising long waits. We investigate the drivers of long waits.
