Doctors Sound Alarm on ‘Scandalous’ A&E Waiting Times

Published on June 21, 2024

Patients are being harmed by long waiting times in A&E departments, a survey of senior doctors has found, with the political parties criticised for failing to offer specific pledges to tackle the situation. More than 90 percent of the A&E doctors who responded to a poll by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said patients are suffering due to casualty departments being overwhelmed, with so-called “corridor care” a frequent occurrence due to a shortage of beds. The poll, conducted this week, questioned the heads of emergency departments in all four nations of the UK about the situation in their A&E, focusing on overcrowding and the standard of care patients are receiving....

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