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- The problem of boarding—waiting in the emergency room after being admitted to the hospital—is a deadly, escalating crisis. Unfortunately, real solutions are still a long way off. If you or a loved one has been hospitalized through an ER recently, you might have spent eight to 12 hours before going to your inpatient bed.
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Apr 1, 2024 · NHS data for England shows more than 1.5 million patients waited 12 hours or more in major emergency departments in 2023, of which around one million were waiting to be admitted to a hospital...
Jan 24, 2022 · Before the Omicron variant began to spread more widely, hospital beds in the UK were already nearing capacity, with a record 6 million people on hospital waiting lists. With the arrival of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, patients with serious ailments sometimes wait five days to get admitted to the ER.
Feb 28, 2023 · A new briefing by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, RCEM Explains: Long waits and excess deaths, reveals that in 2022 1,656,206 patients waited 12-hours or more from their time of arrival in an Emergency Department.
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
Apr 14, 2022 · Patients are waiting for increasingly long periods for an ambulance, in the back of an ambulance and in crowded Emergency Departments. We know that long waits in Emergency Departments can lead to associated harm and even death.
Feb 2, 2023 · If the NHS is going to get patient waiting times for emergency care under control, it needs to restore patient flow, by rebalancing demand and capacity for emergency and inpatient services. And there are several ways the government can support the system to do that.
