Long waits and excess deaths

Royal College of Emergency Medicine - The idea of emergency care services experiencing seasonal spikes in demand – so called ‘Winter Pressures’ are fast becoming a thing of the past. Instead, long waits have become the new norm year-round, and staff are caring for patients in unsafe conditions on a daily basis. It is well established that long waits are associated with patient harm and excess deaths. Las t year the UK government publishedDelivery plan for the recovery of urgent and emergency care (UEC) services. A year on, far too many patients are still coming to avoidable harm.BriefingPress release 
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