The Royal College of Emergency Medicine raised concerns over long waits for emergency care in the NHS during summer, leading to preventable deaths, especially affecting elderly patients.
Snapshot survey by RCEM revealed alarming situations in hospitals, with 91% of A&E bosses acknowledging harm to patients due to current care quality, 87% treating patients in corridors, and 68% having patients waiting in ambulances.
Cases highlighted include patients waiting more than 19 hours for a hospital bed after a decision to admit, exposing the dire conditions within A&E units forcing patients to suffer long waits up to 25 hours.
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