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At one point hundreds of people were waiting for more than 12 hours in Northern Ireland's nine emergency departments, with more than 1,000 waiting to be treated in total.
All three nations have recorded a steady rise in the percentage of people not seen within four hours.
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 ...
Warning over 'dangerous' A&E waiting times February 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM More than 75,000 Scots waited for over 12 hours in A&E in 2024, said the RCEM [Getty Images]
The main patient area inside the Mobile Medical Unit operated in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own ...
He said in September 2021 around one in four people in Northern Ireland were waiting either to see a consultant for the first time or receive treatment, an increase of almost 10% since September 2020.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is an ambulance service that serves the whole of Northern Ireland, approximately 1.9 million people. As with other ambulance services in the United Kingdom, it does not charge its patients directly for its services, but instead receives funding through general taxation. It responds to medical ...
A lack of beds is a key driver of long A&E waiting times. The most recent data shows worsening trolley waits with 162,931 patients waiting more than 12 hours to be seen, treated or discharged from ...