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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.
Improving A&E and ambulance waiting times are among the top priorities for the NHS in the year ahead, health officials have said. Hospitals have also been ordered to focus on reducing the NHS ...
The number of patients waiting more than a year for treatment was also its lowest since December 2020, NHS England said. NHS meets four-hour A&E target for first time as overall wait list ...
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.
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 ...
They suggest that, when compared with people who spent two hours in A&E, the odds of a post-discharge death within 30 days were 1.1 times higher for those who were there for three hours, 1.6 times ...
“We have given clear guidance to the NHS to go back to basics and focus on the fundamentals, so patients are seen promptly in A&E, waiting times are cut, and more people get a GP appointment ...
A flu patient who waited for 12 hours overnight in a hospital emergency department after coughing up blood has said the NHS “isn’t just broken, it is out of time”. Anthony Goldcrown, 47 ...