Up to 500 people are dying every week because of delays in emergency care, a senior healthcare official has warned 🏥As figures show the number of avoidable deaths are surging...
“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.
This was more than triple the equivalent figure for November 2021, when an estimated 10,646 waited longer than 12 hours.has seen an influx of calls. The latest NHS England figures show there were nearly 600,000 calls to the NHS 111 service last week, up more than two-thirds from this time last year. It comes after fresh analysis shows that the number of avoidable deaths has been three times as high as it would have been if hospital waits for emergency treatment had stayed at pre-pandemic levels.