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Figures from NHS England showed 21.8% of patients had to wait at least 12 hours to receive emergency treatment at Worcestershire's hospitals last month, the fifth highest proportion in the country.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has declared a "critical incident" due to "exceptionally high demand" on services and urged people to only go to A&E in a genuine medical emergency.
More than 23,000 ambulances spent over four hours outside A&E waiting to hand over patients in 2024.
A&E services in the UK are often the focus of a great deal of media and political interest, and data on A&E performance is published weekly. [29] However, this is only one part of a complex urgent and emergency care system. Reducing A&E waiting times therefore requires a comprehensive, coordinated strategy across a range of related services. [30]
NHS targets are performance measures used by NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the Health and Social Care service in Northern Ireland.These vary by country but assess the performance of each health service against measures such as 4 hour waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments, weeks to receive an appointment and/or treatment, and performance in specific departments such as ...
In the winter of 2019–20, the trust had severe problems in the A&E department with waiting times reaching eight hours (against the NHS target of four hours) repeatedly and the trust declaring an OPEL Level 4 major crisis. [13]
A man has recalled his "horrendous" hours-long wait at A&E when he attended this winter following a heart attack. Steven Richardson, 68, said his wife Yasmin took him to Worcestershire Royal ...
24 Hours in A&E is a British factual medical documentary programme, airing on Channel 4, set in a teaching hospital in inner London. Initially it was filmed in King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill , Camberwell , but in the seventh series, the setting was changed to St George's Hospital in Tooting , Wandsworth . [ 1 ]