Prime Minister facing calls from senior health officials to declare a national NHS major incident
Rishi Sunak is set to announce his plan to boost emergency NHS care within weeks amid warnings that as many as 500 people are dying each week due to delays.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Society for Acute Medicine have both issued warnings about the “shocking” state of emergency care, including an alert that it is currently “unsafe and undignified”. Coverage for these callouts was recently thrown into stark relief by paramedic strikes. While the official target for Category 2 waits is 18 minutes, responses average more than 40 minutes.
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