About 500 people could be dying each week due to emergency care delays, a senior healthcare official has warned
Dr Adrian Boyle, head of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, says hospital capacity needs to increase, warning:"We cannot continue like this - it is unsafe and it is undignified." More than a dozen NHS trusts and ambulance services declared critical incidents over the festive period..
Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said he thinks waiting times for December will be the worst he has ever seen.trusts and ambulance services declared critical incidents over the festive period as a severe flu outbreak and rising COVID cases are adding pressure to the system.Dr Boyle told Times Radio:"We went into this December with the worst-ever performance against our target and the highest-ever occupancy levels in hospital.
"We don't know about the waiting time figures because they don't come out for a couple of weeks; I'd be amazed if they're not the worst ever that we've seen over this December. "What we're seeing now in terms of these long waits is being associated with increased mortality, and we think somewhere between 300-500 people are dying as a consequence of delays and problems with urgent and emergency care each week. We need to actually get a grip of this."
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