UP to 12,500 NHS patients may have died last year because they waited too long in A&E, a study warns. Researchers found the risk of death is up to 16 per cent higher for people who wait more th…
figures show that 2021 saw a record 1,029,325 people wait more than four hours for a bed after doctors decided to keep them in overnight.The study team said most long-wait patients are kept for hours before a decision, meaning many wait six hours or more in total.At least 677 died because they waited longer than 12 hours, with a total of 48,752 facing such waits last year.
Dr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “Performance in emergency departments has been in decline for many years now.“No patient should be kept waiting to be admitted to a bed.” A&E departments are backed up because other areas of hospitals are full, meaning fewer beds are available when new patients need them.
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