Nearly half of patients have to wait four hours or more before being treated and discharged in A&E.
That kind of 31-hour wait might be at the extreme end.
Over the past few weeks, hospitals from Liverpool to West Yorkshire to Nottingham have had to post warnings online asking the public to think twice before turning up at A&E if they did not need urgent or life-saving care. There are a number of factors playing a role in this - staff shortages, a lack of care in the community - which means some patients wait a long time to be discharged - and the fact that running hospitals has become more difficult because of Covid infection-control measures.
All this means hospital waiting times have deteriorated across the board - not just in A&E but in ambulance response times, in cancer care and for planned surgery. To try to manage that pressure, NHS bosses have been overhauling some services and speeding up some treatments.
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