According to a Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) study, patients who spend hours in A&E, especially after an admission decision has been made, may be at danger.
In March, the NHS recovery plan set a goal of having 76% of patients who visit A&E admitted, transferred, or released in four hours or less.
However, the month’s statistics reveals that only 70.9% of patients were seen in that amount of time.
44,417 patients waited more than 12 hours in A&E departments in February, from the time they were decided to be admitted to the hospital.
The Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) in 2021 released a study by the RCEM that included over five million NHS patients, which served as the basis for its updated excess death projections.
According to this, for every 72 patients who stayed in A&E for eight to twelve hours, there was an extra fatality.
It’s possible that hundreds of patients in England perish needlessly every week.
According to new estimates, extremely long A&E bed wait times may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of over 250 patients per week in England last year.
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