'People are dying waiting for the emergency treatment they desperately need and that is not fair on patients, not fair on families and not fair on the NHS staff doing their best to save lives.'
People are dying because of "appalling" A&E waiting times in Shropshire, an MP has said after "shocking" data was revealed.NHS England statistics, released for the first time, show that 1,885 people waited more than 12 hours from arriving at A&E to being admitted, transferred or discharged.
These long A&E waits can have serious consequences for patients. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned that “evidence shows delays to care and long waits to admission to hospital increase a patient’s risk of harm and death”, even after they leave A&E. “Anyone who has been to A&E recently will know how scary the situation has become with corridors and children’s rooms crammed full of patients suffering in pain."
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